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Using 'vared' in a subshell causes an error message: 

   ( x=aha; vared -p "aha: " x; print $x)

   zsh: error on TTY read: bad file number

In a script it causes a segmentation fault. I tried 3.0.2 and
3.1.2 under Linux. Same with 3.1.0 under AIX, only that it seems
to work in scripts.

Regards,
	Bernd

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Bernd Eggink
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