Re: last `set option value' always passed as $1 and $2 during a 'source' ??

[Philip Lijnzaad]

On 11 Jun 2001 16:17:10 +0200, 
"Sven" == Sven Mascheck <sven.mascheck@student.uni-ulm.de> wrote:

Sven> Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> [...] When I comment out the ``set horizontal-scroll-mode on' in the
>> calling shell, I don't see these funny options. It appears that the last
>> ``set option value'' is always given as $1 and $2 to a source'd script.

Sven> You're clearly confusing the set command of readline (p.48) 
Sven> and the set built-in of bash (p.81)  %-)

I know that horizontal-scroll-mode is an readline option, but your reply
doesn't address the question (and the pages you refer to are in which book?),
which is why a source'd script gets any other options. In fact, if you

  set foo bar

, this will result in $1 being 'foo' and $2 being 'bar' when doing a
source somefile. So readline is irrelevant, and my question remains. 

                                                                      Philip
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