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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: forcemerge 871816 -1

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - moreinfo unreproducible

while I'm fine with removing the moreinfo tag on additional
information, I don't like reporters removing the unreproducible tag.
That tag shows if the maintainer(s) of a package can reproduce the
issue. You don't know if I can now reproduce it.

> 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.

So basically it's indeed just one bug report. *sigh* Merging again.

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

I have not really an opinion on that.

		Regards, Axel
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