pragma unknown-command = disallow and edit module don't play well together

[mschuwalow]

What happened, and what did you expect to happen?

When using pragma unknown-command = disallow in a script and checking it via elvish --compileonly $script, elvish warns that everything in the edit: namespace is not defined. The natural fix for that seems to be to add a use edit to the script, but that causes the script to fail at runtime.

It would be nice to either make elvish --compileonly aware of the edit module or allow use edit.

Output of "elvish -version"

0.21.0

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[xiaq]

Hmm yes the edit: module is weird for historical reasons, it's not an importable module, but a special module directed put in the global namespace in interactive mode.

Allowing use edit is perhaps the best approach; it would also make it possible to start the TUI from a script, with a hypothetical API like:

use edit
edit:start-app

I'm rewriting the Elvish TUI and will take this into account.