From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Cc: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh/ksh init: don't initialise lowercase parameters
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:35:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200129213530.428f2c76@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aBvmWXAVfshuowcm-+cSGQjQi7ZJSovHWW3Dj+Bm3iQg@mail.gmail.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote on Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:36 -0600:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:50 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >
> > Why de-deprecate the uppercase spelling? Do ksh or POSIX sh define "HISTCHARS"
> > in uppercase? The lowercase spelling does seem to be a csh/tcsh thing.
>
> I would agree with removing "Deprecated" from the doc for HISTCHARS.
> It's pretty clear at this point that we're not actually going to
> remove it, and there needs to be one form of the variable even in
> non-zsh modes for the feature to work, and we're not allowed to claim
> the lower-case one.
I see. Yes, we can bless $HISTCHARS as the preferred spelling for
native mode and keep $histchars for csh compatibility…but doesn't this
imply that we should add a $SIGNALS variable (and possibly deprecate
$signals)?
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-01-28 15:19 ` Martijn Dekker
2020-01-28 15:26 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-01-28 15:45 ` Martijn Dekker
2020-01-29 8:49 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-29 18:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-01-29 21:35 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2020-01-29 22:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-01-31 4:17 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-31 4:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-02-01 9:42 ` Daniel Shahaf
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