From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12881 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 06:17:36 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA04376; Thu, 23 May 1996 15:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:51:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199605231951.VAA04630@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: HISTCHARS To: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:51:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <960523124342.ZM15962@zyrcon.z-code.com> from "Barton E. Schaefer" at "May 23, 96 12:43:41 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"UcolF.0.F41._6Cfn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1158 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > On May 23, 9:36pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: > } It is desirable to minimize the number of special parameters sice it is > } quite difficult to handle special parameters in some cases. It can be > } arranged that HISTCHARS will only work if zsh is not called as sh/ksh but > } is it really necessary? > > If it *has* to be limited that way, it's probably not worth the effort. It would not require any extra effort. There are already several special parameters which only work if zsh is not invoked as sh/ksh. These are ARGC, status, prompt, PROMPT, prompt2, prompt3, prompt4 and argv. All of these are just aliases for other parameters. Adding HISTCHARS would require one extra line in hashtable.h. Zoltan