Re: [PATCH] run-help: ugly workaround for run-help-$X with alias for $X

["Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hello Peter,

Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:50:55 -0800
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> That unset is probably there because older versions of zsh had some
>> bugs in the implementation of "var=value command ..." particularly in
>> the case where "command" is a function or builtin.  This stemmed from
>> zsh's efforts to avoid forking when no external program was involved.
>
> Actually, it's here (from the diff -u)...
>
> +		unset run_help_orig_cmd
>  		eval "run-help-$1:t ${(qq@)cmd_args[2,-1]}"
>
> ... so maybe I've missed the point:  it may have been to prevent
> $run_help_orig_cmd being seen by run-help-<something>.

Yes, this was my intention. I would like to avoid somebody uses this,
because it's an hack and might^Wshould be removed in the future.

Bye, Jörg.
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