[Cook] Toggling options

[Jody Hagins]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:26:46 -0400
Jody Hagins <jody at atdesk.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a function that does a lot of commands, but I want them silent.
> 
> So, I "set silent" at the beginning of the function.  However, I want
> to make sure that the "silence" is the same when I leave the function
> as it was when I entered (i.e., if it was silent when I entered I do
> not want to set it to noisy).  Is there a way of querying the status
> so that I can reset it back to what it was before I entered the
> function?



Worse, I have this function

function test_silence =
{
  set silent;
  echo "FOo";
  set nosilent;
}


and commands still are not echoed after calling test_silence...



What am I doing wrong?


Thanks!