Re: zsh can't hold options in MOSXS

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On May 21,  7:57am, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
} Subject: (fwd) zsh can't hold options in MOSXS
}
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} Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc
} Subject: zsh can't hold options in MOSXS
} Date: 21 May 1999 08:14:50 GMT
} Organization: MCSNet Services
} Message-ID: <7i34lq$8et$1@Nntp1.mcs.net>
} 
} As a faithful zsh user, I of course set myself up on Mac OS X Server
} with zsh, but found that my preferred options weren't sticking.
} Specifically, autolist (aka AUTO_LIST) doesn't show up in a plain
} "setopt", and it's not the default.  I compiled my own copy of zsh
} 3.1.5 and the same thing happened.

Autolist -is- on by default in 3.1.5, so it won't show up in setopt
output.  Try doing "setopt kshoptionprint" so that you can see the
state of every option; in 3.1.5 I see (among lots of others)

noautolist            off

("no... off" is "on").

} Is this a zsh problem or a MOSXS problem?

It's a zsh 3.1.5 "problem":  A whole lot of options that weren't on by
default in 3.0.x got made on-by-default in 3.1.5, and the way that
"setopt" prints them correspondingly changed.

The only other time I've something that could be described as "options
not sticking" is when using a zsh that has been patched to add or change
the list of options, and then rebuilt without all the .o files getting
recompiled.

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