From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: zsh workers mailing list <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: add user control of hosts to complete
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:10:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990917121001.A27658@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9909170751.AA13759@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
Peter Stephenson (pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> > : ${(A)hosts:=${(s: :)${(ps:\t:)${${(f)"$(</etc/hosts)"}%%\#*}##[:blank:]#[^
> > [:blank:]]#}}}
> >
> > +# Let the user add her own hosts in if she wants
> > +hosts=( $hostnames $hosts )
>
> As Sven already pointed out, $hosts is there for the user to set. It sets
> its own defaults as a last gasp if it's empty. If you do have your own
> hosts, the contents of /etc/hosts may be simply noise. I don't think we
> need a separate variable.
Ack, sorry about that. My brain tends to switch off when I look at
horrendously obfuscated rats-dropping-core lines. OTOH, I do quite
like the idea of having the choice of merging /etc/hosts in with the
user-defined ones, but then I guess the user can just redefine _hosts
for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-17 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-17 2:46 Adam Spiers
1999-09-17 7:51 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-09-17 11:10 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
1999-09-17 7:35 Sven Wischnowsky
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