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Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun)

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:58:16 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zefram@xxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <991007185650.ZM27319@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 7, 1999 6:56:50 pm"
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
>We already have to use the -L option essentially all the time, and it makes
>little sense to use -L in an interactive context.  Why not overload -L with
>this semantics, and leave plain "emulate" as it was?

Ugh.  Overloading options like this is just confusing.  "emulate" and
"emulate -L" should behave exactly the same, except with respect to
LOCAL_{OPTIONS,TRAPS}.

-zefram

References:
- Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun)
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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