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Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Subject: Re: path PATH Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <0dc71450-d082-93da-52f8-d4e6b97199af@eastlink.ca> <378fcf6a-edb0-885b-3d08-9ebee33bb911@eastlink.ca> <3885c637-c56f-2bb7-9a89-02009254ed75@eastlink.ca> <3b93f68e-d090-15c0-c15e-a3d09d702f76@eastlink.ca> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28704 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 2023-01-21 12:19, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > It's actually the other way around; it's special (because it cannot be > un-tied) but not unique. It's the only one that displays as 'export -T'.  Here, anyway. > These scalar variables are tied, exported, > and special: > > PATH > MANPATH Here: MANPATH is: 'typeset -T' like several others.  But it's good to know that indeed there are special values that will be treated differently.  So I was right about PATH but for the wrong reason ... which is simply being wrong. > The > reason for this tied behavior is so that the scalar parts CAN be > exported, because the environment cannot contain arrays. Ah!  That answers my question as to what all this tie-dying is about.  I had no idea you can't export arrays.  Marvelous.  You know, when you understand why something is, then what it is becomes much easier.  The clouds part.