From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7524 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2001 18:51:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Nov 2001 18:51:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 23233 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2001 18:51:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4493 Received: (qmail 23220 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2001 18:51:03 -0000 From: Bart Schaefer Message-Id: <1011121185049.ZM2517@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:50:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20011121175105.E25691@fysh.org> Comments: In reply to Zefram "Re: few questions" (Nov 21, 5:51pm) References: <20011121102942.A22997@asyd> <1011121160752.ZM2035@candle.brasslantern.com> <20011121171559.B25575@greux.loria.fr> <20011121170838.D25691@fysh.org> <1011121172249.ZM2392@candle.brasslantern.com> <1011121172837.ZM2447@candle.brasslantern.com> <20011121175105.E25691@fysh.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Zefram , zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: few questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Nov 21, 5:51pm, Zefram wrote: } } The ability to alias a particular pattern of quoting always seems to } me to lack any basis in theoretical sense or in practical utility It's not really aliasing a particular pattern of quoting. It's aliasing an arbitrary string of characters before quoting is stripped. From the viewpoint of aliases, `\ls' is not really quoting the `l'; it's simply not the same word as `ls' at the time aliases are resolved, and therefore doesn't match an alias for `ls'. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net