Re: Enable compgen even when programmable completions are not available?

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/26/23 5:32 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> While it is understandable that an attempt to assign to certain shell
> variables would be treated as an error, the combination of not
> printing a diganostic message and inducing a non-interactive shell to
> exit is rather confusing. Further, declare is granted special
> treatment, even after having been defined as a function (which might
> be a bug).


Yup, while trying out Martin's exact suggestion before initially posting
this thread (apologies, Martin -- I should have mentioned that) I was
thrown for a loop for several minutes trying to figure out what on earth
was going on there when I couldn't even echo the return value to check
what happened.


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Eli Schwartz