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Fwd: _pick_variant

On 2020-11-12 10:40 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> and discovered the hard way that zsh supplies a completion function
> for a utility of the same name

1.  The simplest technique for dealing with a flat namespace in any programming language, including shell, is to prefix local names. For example, my command scripts uses “my_” for prefixing where naming collisions may occur. I suppose I could have used “JRC_”.

2. “which” is your friend.
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