From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] "which"-builtin writes diagnostics to stdout
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:10:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150901161002.ZM2429@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150901144527.3ee45953@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Sep 1, 2:45pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} This is an obvious candidate for hiding behind one of the options like
} CSH_JUNKIE_STUFF_THAT_NO_ONE_COULD_CONCEIVABLY_WANT_ANY_MORE on the
} grounds of consistency
I know we avoid this in most cases, but I'd be OK with having this
"option" be (emulation == EMULATE_CSH).
I still think the suggestion that someone might expect $(which foo) to be
the empty string is equally unlikely, or for that matter that anyone who
used $(which foo) would *want* to see the error message. The right thing
is to test the exit status of "which".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-30 3:06 Timo Buhrmester
2015-08-30 5:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-30 5:26 ` Timo Buhrmester
2015-09-01 6:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-01 6:12 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-01 23:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-02 8:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-02 13:48 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-09-01 13:14 ` Timo Buhrmester
2015-09-01 13:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-01 23:10 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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