From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Leah Neukirchen" <leah@vuxu.org>,
"Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: _brace_parameter: misleading help text for #
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:26:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b31c7ae-5654-47ab-bd2c-746b2773fe5d@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkxm9v0m.fsf@vuxu.org>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022, at 8:16 AM, Leah Neukirchen wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> writes:
>
>> -Evaluate the resulting words as numeric expressions and output the
>> -characters corresponding to the resulting integer. Note that this form is
>> -entirely distinct from use of the tt(#) without parentheses.
>> +Evaluate the resulting words as numeric expressions and interpret
>> +these as character codes. Output the corresponding characters. Note
>> +that this form is entirely distinct from use of the tt(#) without
>> +parentheses.
>
> This is way more clear indeed.
I concur, but I think the original message suggested clarifying the
completion blurb as well.
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-31 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-22 13:35 Leah Neukirchen
2022-03-31 5:49 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-03-31 8:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-31 12:16 ` Leah Neukirchen
2022-03-31 19:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2022-04-01 0:11 ` Matthew Martin
2022-04-01 0:21 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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