On 4/26/16 10:49 PM, Grisha Levit wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. I'd read that thread but thought the change > was supposed to only modify the behavior when explicitly specifying the > --debugger option. That also seems to be the gist of the original RedHat > bugzilla request that prompted the > thread: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165793
That's the thing. They set the same option and enable the same behavior, and have always been tied together like that. It's kind of like --posix and -o posix. If that option is enabled when the shell starts up, the shell attempts to load the debugger start file, which creates the debugging environment. > Maybe the description of the extdebug option to the shopt builtin can be > modified with something like I'll add something. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/