From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4004 invoked from network); 26 Jun 1998 18:22:36 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Jun 1998 18:22:36 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24767; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:17:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:17:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <199806261817.TAA06334@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.4: flushing input properly To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:17:58 +0100 (BST) Cc: pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <980626095421.ZM8207@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at Jun 26, 98 09:54:21 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"I08AB1.0.t26.JN-ar"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4174 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bart Schaefer wrote: >I believe the reason it behaves as it does is for purposes of sourcing >a file, so that syntax errors in .zshrc et. al. don't cause the entire >init process to fail. That's a nicety I'd rather not give up. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to ignore the remainder (or, indeed, the entirety) of a startup script when a parse error is encountered. -zefram