> zle-line-init() zle overwrite-mode
> zle -N zle-line-init
>
> To get back on topic, bash is the only Bourne-like shell that I
> know that doesn't allow that function definition syntax above,
> I've always wondered why.
The Posix grammar has never allowed it (a `function_body' must be a
compound command, and that's what bash implements), and there has
never been sufficient demand to add it as an extension.
Chet
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