Re: off topic

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 11, 10:02am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} Ah! So the plugin runs predictably, but this doesn't mean that the 
} user's setup is ignored otherwise, it would just be ignored while the 
} plugin is running insofar as the commands within the plugin go.

Er, no.  It would be ignored while the code for the plugin is being
*parsed*, i.e., converted into zsh's internal wordcode format, NOT
while the wordcode is being *run*.  If the plugin wants to ignore or
save/restore the user state while it is *running*, that's up to the
plugin itself.

This is for things like IGNORE_BRACES, IGNORE_CLOSE_BRACES, RC_QUOTES,
C_BASES, C_PRECEDENCES, MULTI_FUNC_DEF, POSIX_ALIASES, POSIX_IDENTIFIERS,
and POSIX_STRINGS, and alias expansions themselves, which affect the
interpretation of the program text before it even begins running.

Of course, the implementation example I gave could affect some of the
running of the code if it executed simultaneously with the initial
load of the plugin; there's no way to avoid that with an interpreted
language.  But the assumption is that most plugin source files only
set up a bunch of state (function definitions, etc.) that is meant to
execute later.