Ah, I was looking for something like "set --show". Thanks Kurtis!
Do you know approximately when Fish 2.7 will be released?
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Suppose I do this:
>>
>> set foo --local 1
>> set foo --global 2
>> set foo --universal 3
>>
>> Assuming the local version is visible in the current code, $foo will
>> evaluate to 1.
>> Is there a way to retrieve the value of foo in a specific scope like
>> global or universal?
>> I know I can query whether foo is set in a specific scope, but is there a
>> way to get all the values?
>>
>
> Sort of. You can't fetch a specific scope using dollar-sign expansion
> unless you erase the local and/or global scope instance. Fish 2.7 has the
> `set --show varname` command. This is primarily meant to help debug
> perplexing behavior and in things like unit tests:
>
> $ set -U varname universal value
> $ set -g varname global is good
> $ set -l varname locally handy
> $ set --show varname
> $varname: set in local scope, unexported, with 2 elements
> $varname[1]: length=7 value=|locally|
> $varname[2]: length=5 value=|handy|
> $varname: set in global scope, unexported, with 3 elements
> $varname[1]: length=6 value=|global|
> $varname[2]: length=2 value=|is|
> $varname[3]: length=4 value=|good|
> $varname: set in universal scope, unexported, with 2 elements
> $varname[1]: length=9 value=|universal|
> $varname[2]: length=5 value=|value|
>
>
> --
> Kurtis Rader
> Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
>
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R. Mark Volkmann
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