* PATCH: $signals
@ 2015-11-17 10:27 Peter Stephenson
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 2015-11-17 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh Hackers' List
Musing for the Nth time on how we managed to design the $signals array
so that indices are off by one from signals, I noticed we don't even
document the fact.
pws
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
index b896e2d..00ee41f 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
@@ -771,7 +771,13 @@ Incremented by one each time a new shell is started.
)
vindex(signals)
item(tt(signals))(
-An array containing the names of the signals.
+An array containing the names of the signals. Note that with
+the standard zsh number of array indices, where the first element
+has index 1, the signals are offset by 1 from the signal number
+used by the operating system. For example, on typical Unix-like systems
+tt(HUP) is signal number 1, but is referred to as tt($signals[2]). This
+is because of tt(EXIT) at position 1 in the array, which is used
+internally by zsh but is not known to the operating system.
)
vindex(TRY_BLOCK_ERROR)
item(tt(TRY_BLOCK_ERROR) <S>)(
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