Re: [PATCH] add and use _comp_original_options

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 27,  3:20am, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
}
} ... completion code always has extendedglob set. I came up with this
} to work around it,

This seems quite reasonable.  Just for pedantry I think I'd have named
the variable "_comp_caller_options" but it hardly matters.

} Is it safe to use $options, or do I have to check if the parameters
} module is available?

If zsh/parameter is available, referencing $options will autoload it,
so it's safe in that sense, but if the module is not available there's
nothing to guarantee that it has a sensible value.

On the other hand several completions rely on $commands springing into
existence when referenced, or do "compadd -k builtins", so ...