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From: Eric Nielsen <eric@amalgamar.com.br>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Local inner functions in a prompt
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:13:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SC1P152MB1758301D69D905006F39984DEFB80@SC1P152MB1758.LAMP152.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3T72AogvJX3CiLQPrJfb65NkuTz090Co11ROq_c2rbrOw@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Mikael,
 
> On 12/21/18, Eric Nielsen <eric@amalgamar.com.br> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm aware of https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2011/msg00207.html and that
>> there's no such thing as an inner function.
>>
>> But I'm surprised to see that if I declare "inner" functions inside a prompt
>> function, they are not visible from "outside".
>> prompt_outer_setup() {
>>   PS1='$(prompt_outer_main)%# '
>> }
>> prompt_outer_setup
>
> You're running the function in a subshell here.

Oh, of course! (facepalm)

Do you recommend a better way to have a similar structure (one function that is called inside the prompt, that needs to call other functions), or my code structure is completely fine?

Thanks,
Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-21 22:13 Eric Nielsen
2018-12-21 22:48 ` Mikael Magnusson
2018-12-21 23:13   ` Eric Nielsen [this message]

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