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From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: command -p should enable builtins not in path
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:35:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01ba6e28-19ce-274c-2ff2-f95a4088d6cf@inlv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1593127844.1326203.1598026086145@mail2.virginmedia.com>

Op 21-08-20 om 17:08 schreef Peter Stephenson:
> However, "command" with no option is a very long-standing piece of zsh
> syntax to pick an external command, so that's certainly not going to change.

Of course. So what I'm trying to suggest is that this change to -p is 
maybe not a very good idea either. There is a long-standing expectation 
that 'command' runs an external command in native zsh mode, so why 
should that be different just because you're searching the default path?

Code that expects POSIX behaviour, such as that Intel build script, 
shouldn't be run in native zsh mode anyway. If it needs to cooperate 
with native zsh code, it can be loaded with sticky emulation.

- M.

-- 
||	modernish -- harness the shell
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-20 11:28 Vincent Lefevre
2020-08-21 13:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-08-21 15:49   ` Martijn Dekker
2020-08-21 16:08     ` Peter Stephenson
2020-08-21 16:35       ` Martijn Dekker [this message]
2020-08-24 18:30     ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-08-24 19:59       ` Martijn Dekker
2020-10-02 13:17         ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-08-21 15:47 ` Martijn Dekker

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