On 8/24/20 3:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote: >> What I mean is looking for PROMPT_COMMAND as happens now, and reacting a >> different way if it's an array variable. That would resolve the existing >> assignment issues, but open up the separate issues you describe. > > > But I also suggested a way of avoiding those issues: initialise > $PROMPT_COMMAND a.k.a. ${PROMPT_COMMAND[0]} as empty.
Sure. The burden to do that is on the user. As long as startup scripts do that -- which they don't do now -- there's no problem. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/