From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: whence (was Re: local unfunction)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 07:28:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5b3c32f-26fa-de61-22d7-eca653b0af17@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <180404220825.ZM25506@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 04/04/18 10:08 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Forty-two?
>
> Seriously, "hash -m" exists because somebody in the past 25 years found
> it useful to search the hash tables, and "whence -m" exists because
> "hash -m" does and somebody else thought that if anything has a "search
> the tables" option then everything should have a "search the tables"
> option (which is also why "typeset -m" exists ... in fact I've lost
> track of which chicken laid which egg).
Ha! I love these historical anecdotes. But what we peasants need is a
whence that does what God in his love wants it to do for us namely show
us commands. Even on the dot, even on Tuesday, even if the sum of the
ascii values of the characters in the command is a prime number. All
the matches, all the time. It really is unhelpful that -m and -a trip
over each other. It's Gnostic. Should switches ever do that? Nope,
either one subsumes the other, or one cancels the other, or they have
entirely separate and complementary outputs. Logically speaking we have
a union minus the negation of an intersection. Obscure.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-05 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-31 15:25 Bart Schaefer
2018-03-31 17:21 ` Ray Andrews
2018-04-01 1:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-04-01 4:29 ` Ray Andrews
2018-04-01 17:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-04-01 18:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-04-04 18:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-04-05 0:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-04-05 1:41 ` Ray Andrews
2018-04-05 5:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-04-05 14:28 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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