From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: 4.3.17 unset RPS1 vs RPROMPT
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:39:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207011739.q61HdVks002412@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org> of "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:05:12 PDT." <20120630050512.GA87092@redoubt.spodhuis.org>
Phil Pennock wrote:
> Fundamentally, in zsh at present, it seems that magic variables can not
> have their magic purged from them as the names can never truly be
> unbound, just temporarily made unavailable, yet the same content can be
> available under other names.
Right, this is one fundamental issue; it's always been that way.
It's not 100% clear that if someone running "unset RSP1 RPROMPT" has
really got it in mind that they never want to set a right prompt again,
though, particularly if they're used to how the shell currently works.
It would probably be neatest to make a distinction as an option either
to unset or to the shell (the latter making it easy to provide
compatibility with other shells).
Not new, so can wait for now...
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-01 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-29 9:40 Phil Pennock
2012-06-29 10:02 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-06-29 13:32 ` Phil Pennock
2012-06-29 17:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-06-29 18:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-06-30 5:05 ` Phil Pennock
2012-06-30 17:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-07-01 17:39 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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2007-05-03 5:39 [PATCH] Proposal: stat -> zstat Phil Pennock
2007-05-03 8:50 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-05-06 1:07 ` Phil Pennock
2007-05-06 11:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-05-06 14:00 ` Phil Pennock
2007-05-07 0:58 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-05-03 14:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2007-05-03 15:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-05-07 5:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2007-05-08 14:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-05-09 17:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2007-05-09 17:47 ` Peter Stephenson
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