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Re: PATCH: completion for perldoc

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: completion for perldoc
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:57:22 +0200
In-reply-to: "Adam Spiers"'s message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:21:31 MET DST." <19990906192131.C1322@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Adam Spiers wrote:
> > _perldoc {
> > ...
> 
> I forgot to say: this kills zsh :-(

There's no () after _perldoc, so it thinks it's a function call, not a
definition.  You just generate hundreds of recursive calls to _perldoc
until the machine gets board of having enough space on the stack, or
something.

Also, since it's assumed in the completion functions that KSH_AUTOLOAD
isn't set, you need to have as the last line `_perldoc "$@"' to call
the function you've just defined.

The may be a bug here.  Has anyone the slightest idea why `_perldoc {'
is accepted as a complete command line with the argument "{"?

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy

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