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Re: completion grouping (yes, again)

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sven Wischnowsky)
Subject: Re: completion grouping (yes, again)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:39:22 +0000 (GMT)
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In-reply-to: <199911111133.MAA28902@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Sven Wischnowsky at "Nov 11, 1999 12:33:14 pm"
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Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
>>  Slightly icky thought:  Maybe we need
>> a variant of "emulate" that gets undone on *entry* to a called function
>> as well as on exit from the calling function?
>
>That's something I've been wishing for for parameters, btw. I mean,
>sometimes it's nice to be able to set parameters locally so that
>called functions use them instead of the global ones. But in functions 
>like `_arguments' it would be nice to be able to define the locals
>syntactically local.

I would have suggested this a while ago, but didn't because it didn't seem
really feasible in a shell.  Still, Lisp managed to make the transition
to lexical scoping, let's go for it...

-zefram

References:
- Re: completion grouping (yes, again)
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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