Re: environment stuff.

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 11/26/2014 06:03 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 26,  5:23pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } When you do a complete dump of the environment, there's this
>
> Let me point out that if you get any "typeset -A ..." then you're NOT
> doing a complete dump of the environment.  You're doing a complete dump
> of the internal parameter space.  Some things get copied back and forth
> from the internal parameter space to the environment, and you can use
> parameter references to examine the environment, but the two are not
> the same.  The environment is the exported subset of the parameter
> space, and you can't export arrays, especially associative ones.
Good to know.  I trust this parameter space is off limits and I don't have
to know anything more about it for now?
> } ginormous thing that starts:
> }
> }     typeset -A _comps
> }
> } What on Earth is it? Where does stuff like that get set?
>
> That's the list of all command names mapped to functions that implement
> the completions for them.  It's populated by compinit.
Such a load of work!