Re: PATCH: sticky emulation

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:37:58 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Feb 11,  8:28pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> } > What about zcompiled functions?  Obviously there's no special case for
> } > them, but their treatment may be worth explanation at doc time.
> } 
> } I've done that.
> 
> I guess I'm specifically interested in what happens with "zcompile -c"
> which takes a function already defined in the shell and writes it out
> compiled.  Suppose this is used on a function with sticky emulation.
> If the compiled form is then reloaded, is it still sticky?

I suspect the answer's no, but I don't understand the internals and I don't
know how to execute the file in such a way that the reloaded function isn't
marked for autoloading, and autoloading certainly isn't handled.

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:23:06 -0800
> Documentation nit:  My info-viewer and my emacs both display the list
> of emulate rules like so:
>...
> (and so on with the floating numbers one line up and one character too
> far "outdented").

Frankly, if I had time to look at things like what the back end of the
documentation tools is producing I'd be out of work.

> (Aside:
> Does the doc really not explain "autoload -z" anywhere?  Have I just
> missed it?)

A quick glance suggests it actually is missing: the flag appears in the
list at the top, but there's nothing in the description.

> % emulate sh -c "allopt"
> (list of options appears as expected, with "sh" states)
> zsh: allopt: function not defined by file
> 
> OK, clearly allopt should be getting "autoload -z" treatment.
>...
> So there's no way to cause an autoloaded function to acquire sticky
> emulation, which is what's meant by "No special handling for ...
> autoload."

Yes, that's right.  We may want to add this later; it should be no harder
than -k or -z.  However, saving a zcompile'd function in the appropriate
format may be harder (I've stayed sane by avoiding that code).

I've just gone through my initialisation files adding "-z"s everywhere as a
consequence.

Index: Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -u -r1.119 builtins.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo	11 Feb 2009 20:42:16 -0000	1.119
+++ Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo	12 Feb 2009 09:38:00 -0000
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@
 With the tt(-w) flag, the var(name)s are taken as names of files compiled
 with the tt(zcompile) builtin, and all functions defined in them are
 marked for autoloading.
+
+The flags tt(-z) and tt(-k) mark the function to be autoloaded in
+native or ksh emulation, as if the option tt(KSH_AUTOLOAD) were
+unset or were set, respectively.  The flags override the setting of
+the option at the time the function is loaded.
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