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 (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id UAA25312 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:28:45 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA20860; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 06:04:24 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 06:04:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607221003.MAA21527@hydra.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Problematic change in alias behavior in pre3 In-reply-to: "schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com"'s message of "Sun, 21 Jul 1996 11:51:35 MET." <960721115135.ZM19185@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:03:25 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"_y3sp3.0.s55.d8ryn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1736 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com wrote: > It's not sufficient to assign incmdpos=0 when ENVARRAY, because then this > kind of thing fails: > > zsh% alias foo='echo help' > zsh% show=(stuff) foo bar > zsh: command not found: foo No objection to the fix, but is it clear this is kind of thing is useful anyway? Arrays don't seem to get exported in this fashion, not even space-concatenated. % show=stuff zsh -c 'printenv show' stuff % show=(stuff) zsh -c 'printenv show' -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77330 Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.