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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: failure in "vcs_info prompt" aborts precmd function
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:03:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16276.1416780239@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141123101345.ZM10525@torch.brasslantern.com>

Bart wrote:
> It's pretty easy to make it behave like a failed external command; can
> anyone recall why it wasn't, other than to avoid allocating an empty
> linked list?  It has been a fatal error since before revision control
> was in use.  It is possible something really depends on being stopped
> by this error?

I'd think it was unlikely.
Neither bash or ksh (88 or 93) treat it as a fatal error.

I'd vote for applying the patch.

Oliver


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-23 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-22 17:13 Daniel Hahler
2014-11-22 17:20 ` [PATCH] vcs_info: test -f .git/rebase-merge/done before reading it Daniel Hahler
2014-11-22 17:51 ` BUG: failure in "vcs_info prompt" aborts precmd function Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-22 18:01   ` Daniel Hahler
2014-11-22 22:20     ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-22 22:44       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-23 19:02         ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-23 19:38           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-23 20:04             ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-23 15:58       ` Daniel Hahler
2014-11-23 18:08         ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-23 19:57           ` TRY_BLOCK_ERROR and exit status Bart Schaefer
2014-11-24 10:11             ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-25  8:01               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-25  9:18                 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-23 18:13         ` BUG: failure in "vcs_info prompt" aborts precmd function Bart Schaefer
2014-11-23 18:52           ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-23 19:47             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-23 22:03           ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]

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