Re: Documentation and tools to understand and debug the Zsh codebase

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Philippe Altherr wrote on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 23:16:02 +0100:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> About a year ago, a friend of mine finally convinced me to look into Zsh. I
> quickly became a big fan. All the little extra features and behavior tweaks
> add up and make it in my opinion a much better shell than Bash, which I was
> using until then. Nevertheless, I still stumbled on a few bugs and
> shortcomings. Since I have some free time on my hands, I figured that I
> could maybe one day help address some of these. Last week, I finally took
> the plunge and started looking into the codebase to understand what was
> going on with ERR_EXIT (see related thread
> <https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2022/msg01203.html>).
> 
> So far, I have mainly studied exec.c
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/Src/exec.c> and loop.c
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/Src/loop.c>, which seem
> to constitute the bulk of the evaluation loop. I have also seen that zsh.h
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/Src/zsh.h> contains most
> of the important data structures and I he found the description of word
> codes in parse.c
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/Src/parse.c#l100>,

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> - How do you search the mailing list? I don't see a search box on
> www.zsh.org/mla/.

Personally, I've been subscribed to the list for years so I just search
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Leaving your other questions to others.

Cheers,

Daniel