Re: ZLE special parameters

[Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
>This is probably wrong.  There was an exchange between Bart and me
>about funny things with typeset and local variables some time ago.  It
>needs rewriting.

So what is the correct behaviour?  It's a pretty simple bit of code
to change.

>I'm getting a core dump with the increment function

It worked for me.

>Hitting ^xi twice gives a core dump.  Any modification of LBUFFER
>seems to do this.  It's coming in makezleparams(); createparam() is
>returning a NULL because the (oldpm && !(oldpm->flags & PM_UNSET))
>test failed.  Oddly enough, it's always when zp->name is BUFFER even
>if I only change LBUFFER.  Even if I am missing a patch, I worry about
>relying on the parameter not already existing at this point.

I did, I think, have $BUFFER set in the enclosing environment in one of
my tests, but I'll look into it.

-zefram