[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#871787: Bug#871787: zsh: error "defining function based on alias ..."

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: retitle -1 zsh: parse error when defining a function based on an alias
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo unreproducible

On 2017-08-11 17:17:36 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure whether there are other issues or this is a
> > consequence of the above bug, but completions are alo broken.
> > For instance, I can no longer complete on the "man" command.
> 
> Works fine for me on a first glance, both without arguments as well as
> with the beginning of a command already typed.

The issue was due to the parse error in the function definition
based on an alias: zsh stopped reading the script, so breaking
things even more.

Shouldn't this be just a warning? Or just a normal error?

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