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Re: [Feature Request]: Globally updated Variables for all zsh instances for same user - just like fish shell
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: [Feature Request]: Globally updated Variables for all zsh instances for same user - just like fish shell
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:42:33 -0700
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On Jul 12, 6:42pm, Zaxebo Yaxebo wrote:
}
} *"Fish Shell" has a feature known as universal variables, which allow a
} user to permanently assign a value to a variable across all the running
} fish shells of that user. The variable value is remembered across logouts
} and reboots, and updates in value are immediately propagated to all running
} shells.*
This was previously discussed in the thread starting here:
http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=19431
The thread branches a bit but nobody suggested anything better than this:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137077/serialize-shell-variable-in-bash-or-zsh
We're almost certainly not going to implement the fish model of having a
background server process that all other shells can contact to receive
environment variable updates.
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