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Without any argument print current emulation mode.
With single argument set up zsh options to emulate the specified
shell as much as possible. csh will never be fully emulated.
If the argument is not one of the shells listed above, zsh will
be used as a default; more precisely, the tests performed on the
argument are the same as those used to determine the emulation
at startup based on the shell name, see the section COMPATIBIL-
ITY in zsh(1) . In addition to setting shell options, the com-
mand also restores the pristine state of pattern enables, as if
all patterns had been enabled using enable -p.
If the emulate command occurs inside a function that has been
marked for execution tracing with functions -t then the xtrace
option will be turned on regardless of emulation mode or other
options. Note that code executed inside the function by the .,
source, or eval commands is not considered to be running
directly from the function, hence does not provoke this behav-
iour.
If the -R switch is given, all settable options are reset to
their default value corresponding to the specified emulation
mode, except for certain options describing the interactive
environment; otherwise, only those options likely to cause
portability problems in scripts and functions are altered. If
the -L switch is given, the options LOCAL_OPTIONS, LOCAL_PAT-
TERNS and LOCAL_TRAPS will be set as well, causing the effects
of the emulate command and any setopt, disable -p or enable -p,
and trap commands to be local to the immediately surrounding
shell function, if any; normally these options are turned off in
all emulation modes except ksh. The -L switch is mutually exclu-
sive with the use of -c in flags.
The flags may be any of the invocation-time flags described in
the section INVOCATION in zsh(1), except that `-o EMACS' and `-o
VI' may not be used. Flags such as `+r'/`+o RESTRICTED' may be
prohibited in some circumstances.
If -c arg appears in flags, arg is evaluated while the requested
emulation is temporarily in effect. In this case the emulation
mode and all options are restored to their previous values
before emulate returns. The -R switch may precede the name of
the shell to emulate; note this has a meaning distinct from
including -R in flags.
Use of -c enables `sticky' emulation mode for functions defined
within the evaluated expression: the emulation mode is associ-
ated thereafter with the function so that whenever the function
is executed the emulation (respecting the -R switch, if present)
and all options are set (and pattern disables cleared) before
entry to the function, and the state is restored after exit. If
the function is called when the sticky emulation is already in
effect, either within an `emulate shell -c' expression or within
another function with the same sticky emulation, entry and exit
from the function do not cause options to be altered (except due
to standard processing such as the LOCAL_OPTIONS option). This
also applies to functions marked for autoload within the sticky
emulation; the appropriate set of options will be applied at the
point the function is loaded as well as when it is run.
For example:
emulate sh -c 'fni() { setopt cshnullglob; }
fno() { fni; }'
fno
The two functions fni and fno are defined with sticky sh emula-
tion. fno is then executed, causing options associated with
emulations to be set to their values in sh. fno then calls fni;
because fni is also marked for sticky sh emulation, no option
changes take place on entry to or exit from it. Hence the
option cshnullglob, turned off by sh emulation, will be turned
on within fni and remain on on return to fno. On exit from fno,
the emulation mode and all options will be restored to the state
they were in before entry to the temporary emulation.
The documentation above is typically sufficient for the intended
purpose of executing code designed for other shells in a suit-
able environment. More detailed rules follow.
1. The sticky emulation environment provided by `emulate
shell -c' is identical to that provided by entry to a
function marked for sticky emulation as a consequence of
being defined in such an environment. Hence, for exam-
ple, the sticky emulation is inherited by subfunctions
defined within functions with sticky emulation.
2. No change of options takes place on entry to or exit from
functions that are not marked for sticky emulation, other
than those that would normally take place, even if those
functions are called within sticky emulation.
3. No special handling is provided for functions marked for
autoload nor for functions present in wordcode created by
the zcompile command.
4. The presence or absence of the -R switch to emulate cor-
responds to different sticky emulation modes, so for
example `emulate sh -c', `emulate -R sh -c' and `emulate
csh -c' are treated as three distinct sticky emulations.
5. Difference in shell options supplied in addition to the
basic emulation also mean the sticky emulations are dif-
ferent, so for example `emulate zsh -c' and `emulate zsh
-o cbases -c' are treated as distinct sticky emulations.
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