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Subject: Re: PATCH: add user control of hosts to complete 
In-Reply-To: "Adam Spiers"'s message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 03:46:27 DFT."
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:51:18 +0200
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>

Adam Spiers wrote:
>  : ${(A)hosts:=${(s: :)${(ps:\t:)${${(f)"$(</etc/hosts)"}%%\#*}##[:blank:]#[^
> [:blank:]]#}}}
>  
> +# Let the user add her own hosts in if she wants
> +hosts=( $hostnames $hosts )

As Sven already pointed out, $hosts is there for the user to set. It sets
its own defaults as a last gasp if it's empty.  If you do have your own
hosts, the contents of /etc/hosts may be simply noise. I don't think we
need a separate variable.

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