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Re: set temporary environment variables for builtins

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Clinton Bunch" <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: set temporary environment variables for builtins
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:26:04 -0500
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, at 3:27 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 12:22 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It does work, in general.
>
> Well, no, it doesn't.  It works for parameters that zsh separately
> considers to be "special", which includes all the LC_* variants.  TZ
> is not special.

Huh, this is very surprising to me.  I guess I never noticed because
almost all the variables that can influence builtins (e.g., CDPATH,
LC_*, OPTIND, etc.) are special.

-- 
vq

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