From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Regarding emulate: a thought, and refresh my memory?
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:06:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306200652.1617879b@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <120303172521.ZM11549@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:25:21 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> The code in bin_emulate dating all the way back to Andrej's patch in
> zsh-workers/26425 rejects the combination of -L and -c. The stated
> reason for this is "do not confuse user who reads manuals." However,
> the -c option always restores everything at the end, and anyway one
> can always run
> emulate zsh -c 'setopt localoptions; ...'
> so I'm hoping someone can remind me why we bother throwing an error
> on that combination.
I can't imagine there's anything fundamental about it.
> The reason I ask is because it suddenly popped into my head that the
> emulate command might just as well parse other startup-time options
> besides just -c.
Can't see why not. I often do "emulate -L zsh; setopt extendedglob
cbases", it would be sensible to put that in one command.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 1:25 Bart Schaefer
2012-03-06 8:27 ` PATCH " Bart Schaefer
2012-03-06 20:06 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-03-06 20:22 ` Stephane Chazelas
2012-03-07 6:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-07 11:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2012-03-07 17:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-08 8:38 ` Stephane Chazelas
2012-03-08 15:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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