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Subject: RE: PATCH: new _zpty, _getconf and improved _compdef
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> If anyone feels the need to implement getconf as a builtin

Please, do not do it. This must remain system-specific, not shell-specific.

If anybody absolutely needs access to (sys|path)conf from inside of Zsh - better, use
associative array to hold values. Even in this case - can anybody be sure, that all
possible conf parameters are covered?

-andrej