From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15152 invoked from network); 29 Nov 1997 18:19:58 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Nov 1997 18:19:58 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA26110; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:09:16 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:09:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <971129100927.ZM4522@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:09:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: <199711291555.KAA24555@ertugl.prospect.apt> Comments: In reply to schizo@debian.org (Clint Adams) "Re: histchars" (Nov 29, 10:53am) References: <199711291555.KAA24555@ertugl.prospect.apt> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: schizo@debian.org (Clint Adams), zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: histchars MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"F1blt3.0.vN6.Bf5Wq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3643 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Nov 29, 10:53am, Clint Adams wrote: } Subject: Re: histchars } } > Hm. No offense, but ... do you guys always change anything that anybody } > submits a bug report for? } } No. Do you disagree with the decision? You yourself said you didn't know why it was necessary. The ChangeLog file has these two entries from the same date: Wed Jul 31 19:10:04 1996 Zoltan Hidvegi * Src/version.h: zsh-3.0-pre5 released * Src/hashtable.h, Src/params.c, Src/zsh.h: {E,}{U,G}ID, USERNAME, histchars, HISTCHARS, IFS are not imported Since those variables were imported prior to 3.0, and that was deliberately changed a year and a half ago, and nobody's complained to zsh-workers about it in all that time, I tend to think that it ought to be left alone -- at least until you know why it could be considered a bug. (Perhaps for bash or ksh behavior equivalence?) I'd actually prefer it if *fewer* variables, rather than more, were imported when shells start up. It was fine when there were essentially two shells (sh and csh) that shared no special variables; but now there are a dozen or more sharing the same namespace. For example, there are about three shells with incompatible formats for PS1; it's annoying when zsh imports bash's prompt. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com