From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: PWD parameter
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 19:16:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <980524191600.ZM10165@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199805241738.MAA25692@hzoli.home>
On May 24, 12:38pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: PWD parameter
}
} Note that PWD can be unset even without my patch after typeset +r PWD.
Hmm, and it doesn't become set again upon "cd". That, at least, I'd say
is (was) a bug, though I suppose it might be useful in some rare cases.
} And right now you can unset any writable special parameters.
I don't really have a problem with that, in the general case.
} It is always good to reduce the number of special parameters, since they
} are more complicated to handle in various places
I'd definitely agree that we shouldn't be *increasing* the number of special
paramters. Do the ones that are already there very often need handling that
they don't already get?
} and sometimes special
} parameters behave differently from non-special parameters.
Chuckle. Well, yes; I imagine that's why they're called "special".
} Looks like you'd like to ignore any changes to PWD, or at least when you
} assign it you'd like to check that the assigned value is correct.
The latter, but I wouldn't go so far in defining "correct" as to require
that `cd $PWD` and `cd ~+` put you in the same place -- just that both
ought to succeed.
This is probably wandering farther into philosophy than it's worth ....
} This is exacly how zsh behaves after typeset +r PWD.
Not quite. For example, my $HOME is /home/schaefer, but that's really a
symlink to /extra/home/schaefer. In zsh 3.0.5, if I do
cd $HOME
typeset +r PWD
unset PWD
PWD=/extra/home/schaefer
echo $PWD
then what I get back is /home/schaefer. *That* seems a bit odd.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-25 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-24 4:44 Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-24 5:57 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-24 7:51 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-24 16:42 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-24 17:38 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-25 2:16 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1998-05-25 3:02 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-25 4:02 ` Bart Schaefer
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