From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10946 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2011 15:01:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16284 Received: (qmail 23357 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2011 15:01:04 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at closedmail.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <110824080039.ZM25273@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:39 -0700 In-reply-to: <87ty97eyny.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> Comments: In reply to Frank Terbeck "Re: INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS - why?" (Aug 24, 3:17pm) References: <87y5yjf251.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> <87ty97eyny.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS - why? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Aug 24, 3:17pm, Frank Terbeck wrote: } } Fair enough. But then again, who wouldn't set `extended_glob'? ;) I don't. I have a little "eglob" function that I use as a prefix to the command line when I want extended globbing. (Obviously I spend too much of my time cleaning out backup files that have "#" and "~" in their names.) } Still: The choice of having it unset by default might still be for } emulating csh behaviour. Or maybe not. If someone can remember why } it's off by default, I'd be glad to hear about it. It's almost certainly related to csh. Zsh was first invented as a shell to bring Bourne shell parsing regularity and scripting features to users (university students in a BSD Unix environment) who had been introduced to Unix via csh. Anything that would overtly confuse a csh-er who was typing a simple one-liner at the prompt was avoided.