On 2019-09-07 18:57, Greg Reagle wrote: > Okay. I think I understand. I'll try to give some advice. > > The command 'exit' does exit the script or shell. If you are inside a > function, 'return' will exit the function not the whole shell. > > If you want to preserve the error code value, something like this will do: > > function foo > ls # this is the command that might fail > set error_code $status > if test 0 -ne $error_code > echo call_error_handler > return $error_code > end > end
Thanks. It will use something like that to safeguard code in my functions. > If you don't need to preserve the error code, but only care about success or > failure, you can simplify: > > ls || begin > echo call_error_handler > false > end Definitely the simplest and for many cases enough. This is the most similar to something I tried. The problem was and in an "inline function" I tried to use "return -1" which is not allowed. Marcin -- https://blog.solidsoft.info/ - Working code is not enough _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
