[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#613162: zsh: Loading colors script fails, bad set of key/value pairs

[Frank Terbeck]

Benjamin Peter wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 04:50 PM, Frank Terbeck wrote:
[...]
>> % printf '%s = '\''%s'\''\n' ${(kv)color} | sort
>>    
>
> Not sure if this does what it was inteded to.
>
> $ printf '%s = '\''%s'\''\n' ${(kv)color} | sort
>  = ''''''
> ' ${(kv)color} | sortnone = ''

Yes, for you it doesn't, pretty much because of the ksh_arrays option I
mentioned in the other mail.

> When I just do the following I get
>
> $ print ${(kv)color}
> none
>
> But I think I figured what you wanted.
>
> Maybe this?
>
> printf '%s = %s\n' ${(kv)color[*]} | sort

Actually, I wanted @ and double-quotes rather than *, but for the
involved values, it doesn't make a difference. :)

> Anyway. I tried to to do some kind of single step printf debugging
> after your printf hints and added the files as an attachement.[...]
[...]

Thanks, I'm pretty sure I found the underlying cause by looking at the
xtrace you provided earlier today. See if my ideas around ksh_arrays
help with the problem (I'm fairly sure they will).

Regards, Frank