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Re: [patch] interactive source

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [patch] interactive source
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:33:59 +0100
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:02:17 -0700
Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >8------------------------------ . [-i] file [arg ...]
>               Reads  file as input to rc and executes its contents.
> With a -i flag, input is interactive.  Thus from within a shell
> script,
> 
>                    . -i /dev/tty
> 
>               does the ``right thing''.
> ----------------------------8< cut here

I tried this.  While it's potentially useful to allow users to execute code
like this, it probably needs to use ZLE, which is more work.

The option handling needs to be done in the standard way, but that's easy
to fix.

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