From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6570 invoked from network); 8 Oct 1999 09:58:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Oct 1999 09:58:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 6959 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 1999 09:58:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8180 Received: (qmail 6952 invoked from network); 8 Oct 1999 09:58:27 -0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun) In-Reply-To: <991007185650.ZM27319@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 7, 1999 6:56:50 pm" To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:58:16 +0100 (BST) Cc: zefram@fysh.org, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Bart Schaefer wrote: >We already have to use the -L option essentially all the time, and it makes >little sense to use -L in an interactive context. Why not overload -L with >this semantics, and leave plain "emulate" as it was? Ugh. Overloading options like this is just confusing. "emulate" and "emulate -L" should behave exactly the same, except with respect to LOCAL_{OPTIONS,TRAPS}. -zefram