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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:22:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7a6b0f1-de8e-a3d4-5129-3d7aea366321@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bO1pdonnpVoYv8E0Yj9ASSegAZWqR3QHt5yiicMSLT_g@mail.gmail.com>

On 29/12/17 05:07 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Bart Schaefer
> <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> Mathieu wants execution to begin as soon as there is
>> some code in the buffer, without waiting for the final keyword to
>> appear.
> Not-so-incidentally, the fact that zsh does NOT do this is one of the
> primary reasons that zsh exists at all.  Paul Falstad found it
> distasteful that csh DOES that, and set out to create a shell that had
> the interactive advantages of csh while preserving the separation of
> parse and execution as found in sh and ksh.
>
Cool!  These insights from history are so very illuminating.  Mind ... 
that would seem to make it all the more possible/acceptable to do what 
Mathieu wants, it'd be a compatibility featurenot some sort of 
abominable novelty the way my suggestions are abominable novelties.


setopt csh_parsing ?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-30 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-28 15:07 mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-28 15:19 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29  8:47   ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:51     ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:15       ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 19:29         ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:49           ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 20:27             ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 23:45               ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30  1:07                 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30  9:50                   ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 10:05                     ` Frank Terbeck
2017-12-30 17:22                   ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2017-12-30 22:06                     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30 23:00                       ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 17:16                 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 22:23                   ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 23:06                     ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 23:32                       ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30  9:36               ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 17:39                 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 22:59       ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2017-12-29  8:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:24   ` mathieu stumpf guntz

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