From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: 'whence' question
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:15:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545A7757.3090301@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458.1415209763@thecus.kiddle.eu>
On 11/05/2014 09:49 AM, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Ray Andrews wrote:
>> ... yet, although '/usr/local/bin/zsh' is found, all of the other files
>> found by
>> 'whence -a zsh' above are missed. How is it that '/usr/local/bin/zsh'
>> matches
>> 'zsh*' but '/bin/zsh' does not?
> Because /bin/zsh is hidden by /usr/local/bin/zsh. The commands are in a
> hash table and there is only the one entry for zsh.
>
> Looking at the source, it seems that whence doesn't support both -a and
> -m together though it doesn't produce an error.
You anticipate me. '-am' was the first 'cure' I tried.
> I'd agree that this isn't ideal. Note that whence -m does show a zsh
> alias in addition to /usr/local/bin/zsh if there is one.
I'm not sure what the intuitive answer might be. As Peter said, '-m'
finds only the first *active*
match, whereas '-a' pointedly keeps looking. Perhaps '-a' might accept
wildcards? That would
leave '-m' alone, but expand the usefulness of '-a' without (I hope)
breaking anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-05 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-05 18:33 Ray Andrews
2014-11-05 17:49 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-11-05 18:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-06 4:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 21:45 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-06 21:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 23:15 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-06 22:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-05 19:15 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-11-05 17:50 ` Peter Stephenson
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