Re: zsh: Strange feature with 'jobs' commmand

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

>
> Incidentally, I think bash special cases the jobs builtin and would
> run less in a subshell in this case instead. Could we do something like
> this in zsh?
>

IIRC bash runs right part of every pipe in subshell. We run left pipe.
This makes it possible to do something like

foo | read FOO_RESULT

that assigns return value of foo to FOO_RESULT. It does not work in bash.
Just how useful (often used) this feature is is different qustion :-)

Anyway, I am afraid, changing it requires quite a major rewrite. And in
current zsh you have jobstates and jobtexts arrays that make 'jobs | less'
hardly ever needed.

-andrej