Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/11/11 6:37 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS : compgen
> 
> First paragraph
> 
> Run-on sentence/Repetitive statement (aka Too wordy)
> 
> Original Text: When using the -F or -C options, the various shell variables 
> set by the
> programmable completion  facilities,  while  available, will not have useful
> values."
> 
> Solution: strike "while available,"
> 
> If they're "not available", why worry?

Because the shell makes a distinction between set and unset variables.
The programmable completion code takes care to make sure that the
variables it sets are only set when programmable completion is executing
shell functions or commands.  These variables will be set while compgen
is running, but, since they depend on the readline state, may not contain
useful or current values.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/