From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990207175931.ZM8940@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:59:31 -0800 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk, Sweth Chandramouli Subject: Re: setopt and alias questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailing-List: 2113 Please stop using . The mailing list address is now . Forwarding through the old address won't work forever. Your Mail-Followup-To: header should be fixed, too. On Feb 7, 7:37pm, Sweth Chandramouli wrote: } Subject: setopt and alias questions } } 1) is there some way to force setopt to list the status } of all options? Yes: setopt kshoptionprint However, this produces all sorts of lovely double-negatives like noalwayslastprompt off noautolist off noautomenu off nolistambiguous off nolistbeep off nolisttypes off } right now, it only lists the status of those that } have been changed from the shell defaults Yes. This was done so that the output of "setopt" with no args would not change radically from 3.0.x to 3.1.x. Of course, I then disagreed (and still do) with the decision to turn so many options "on" by default. } 2) does zsh not support tracking or exporting of aliases? Zsh does not export aliases. I don't know what you mean by "tracking." -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com