From: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh-3.1.5-pws-5 + recent: typeset -T MYPATH mypath (finally!)
Date: 28 Jan 1999 17:53:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vbbtjji8s8.fsf@snake.isode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:25:39 +0100"
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> writes:
> Now I've tidied up bin_typeset() a bit, it's finally possible to make
> user-tiable path-like variables without the onset of suicidal
> feelings. This has been requested for several years. Maybe there's not
> even anyone left who wants it --- word splitting and joining has
> improved quite a lot since then. The syntax is
> typeset -T TEXINPUTS texinputs
> where the scalar has to come first, but there is no restriction on the
> names.
I think the issue was mostly with typeset -U. Looking at the
description of -U, it suggests that it ought to work for
colon-separated things like PATH anyway. Hmm... No, it doesn't work
for random variables, only for special ones.
So, this patch *is* still worthwhile. It ought to allow me to create
new colon-separated variables, and have the shell eliminate
duplicates. Of course, what we really want is programmable setting
and reading of variables, like ksh93 has.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-28 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-28 17:25 Peter Stephenson
1999-01-28 17:53 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1999-01-29 16:56 ` Bart Schaefer
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