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Re: _arguments parsing of --help output

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:10:20 -0700
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On Jul 21,  3:22pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
> I'm also curious in what circumstances the code to "... split the result
> again at newlines after joining the old array elements with newlines
> between them" ever makes a difference?  It strikes me as redundant.

To answer myself ... it eliminates empty array elements, which probably
don't matter because they won't match the `-' prefix and so compadd will
discard them; but it's probably cleaner to explicitly squelch them.

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- _arguments parsing of --help output
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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