From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27208 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2011 21:24:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 29460 Received: (qmail 6040 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2011 21:24:56 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at ntlworld.com designates 81.103.221.49 as permitted sender) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 22:24:47 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh workers Subject: Re: dynamic named directories clobber $reply Message-ID: <20110604222447.385a7abc@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=JvdXmxIgLJv2/GthKqHpGJEEHukvLcvELVXUanXFreg= c=1 sm=0 a=IkRtyFbnXLcA:10 a=uObrxnre4hsA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=OShPqbwDaoLien3YqwMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=_dQi-Dcv4p4A:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:24:14 +0200 Mikael Magnusson wrote: > I noticed that after a successful ~[something] substitution, ~[] or > ~[invalid] would return the same substitution, because $reply leaks to > the parent shell, and my function doesn't unset $reply when it doesn't > find anything valid. In addition to Bart's reply, this would only be an actual bug if it was happening when your function returned non-zero, which is what it's supposed to do if it doesn't have a match. -- Peter Stephenson Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/