From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA21775 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 07:06:50 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA13837 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:05:48 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA29954; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:03:40 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 17:02:17 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9506092102.AA07422@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Cc: hzoli@cs.elte.hu Subject: Re: logname in zsh-2.6b9 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 1995 18:25:15 BST." <9506091625.AA03604@turan.elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 17:02:17 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"btzyX3.0.yJ7.hSBsl"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/97 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > In my releases logname variable is completely missing. Also the LOGNAME > parameter is writable. Zsh use the logname variable only to store the value of > the LOGNAME special parameter. I already posted patches for that but it seems > that Richard does not like my patches too much. Here is a patch against > beta9. It makes HOSTTYPE, OSTYPE, MACHTYPE, VENDOR, ZSH_VERSION, LOGNAME and > USERNAME non-special parameters. They will behave exactly as before, except > that they are writable, these name can be used as local parameters etc. This > increases flexibility and simplifies the code. I'm sorry that it is taking me so long to integrate your patches. It is not that I don't like your patches. The primary reason it is taking so long is that I typically do things in stages. So I've only recently started looking at the param.c code (which seems to be where most of your patches are). I've actually been looking through it this week. It will take a while to integrate them all, but the changes you mention above should be in beta10. So don't take it personally and don't get discouraged. I just have my own convoluted way of doing things. Richard Coleman zsh@math.gatech.edu