It used to error out when a command wasn't known, even when it was a
function that would only be discovered via autoloading.
Now we just accept that a command doesn't exist when no-execute is
given - we're not gonna execute it anyway.
Also, in the same breath stop counting empty commands after expansion
and empty wildcard expansions as errors - these depend on runtime
values, so we can't verify them without executing.
Fixes#977.
(note that it still executes "time", but that's another commit)
