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+#autoload
+
+# This function is called at the beginning of functions that do matching in
+# shell code. It should test the value of the `MATCHER' special parameter
+# and return non-zero if the calling function should try to generate matches
+# for the global match specification in use.
+#
+# This function gets one argument, the name of the function calling it.
+#
+# If you have a global match specification with more than one set of patterns
+# you may want to modify this function to return non-zero for all of your
+# match specifications and modify the function `_match_pattern' to build the
+# pattern to use in the calling function.
+
+(( MATCHER == 1 ))