Re: Does zsh have an equivalent to the shopt command ?

[Sean <schliden@gmail.com>]

The message fails to print and the shell hangs !


On 7/24/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> Sean wrote:
> > On futher investigation, it appears that it is not actually choking on
> > that line, rather this code which appears in many of the case option
> > function calls:
> >
> > version() { sed -e 's/^    //' <<EndVersion
> >         TODO.TXT Manager
> >         Version 1.6.3
> >         Author:  Gina Trapani (ginatrapani@gmail.com)
> >         Release date:  5/11/2006
> >         Last updated:  7/6/2006
> >         License:  GPL, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> >         More information and mailing list at http://todotxt.com
> > EndVersion
> >     exit 1
> > }
>
> Hmmm... again, that should work fine and does on my machine; the
> shell isn't asked to do anything much beyond parsing a here document.
> When you say "chokes", what do you mean?  Obviously calling the
> function will cause the shell to exit, because of the "exit 1" at the
> end ; is it failing to print the message, exiting in some odd way,
> hanging...?  Or are you saying the options to the parent function (with
> the getopts) are such that this function shouldn't be called?  In which
> case, what combination of options to that function is causing unexpected
> behaviour?  (I could believe getopts behaved differently from bash but I
> need to see the command line being passed.)
>
> I'm guessing a lot of the spaces in that function were actually
> tabs, but I've put those back and not had any problem.
>
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