Re: [PATCH] Completion: Improve _man (3)

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:14:20 -0500
dana <dana@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2018, at 09:39, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Please don't use () for 1 {} a b c style loops in actual scripts, it
> >is not guaranteed to work.  
> 
> Someone on IRC told me it was safe :(

It is certainly a long-standing general expectation that variant syntax
is avoided in widely distributed shell code as it's both a confusion and
a possible source of problems with people's own option settings  ---
completion deliberately doesn't do full emulation, just sanitize
important options locally.

I don't think this is currently explicitly mentioned in
Etc/completion-style-guide, though...

pws