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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zargs: unexpected, non-xargs behaviour
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:02:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <120507100224.ZM10658@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANPayMQxZ5X7W_51Vk1F1PxKW2mEw7PZrLZ7Tw1+e6yvh-+3eA@mail.gmail.com>

On May 7,  6:10pm, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
}
} A strong hint at the very beginning of the documentation that the
} number of arguments are counted differently in GNU xargs and zargs
} would probably help a lot.

Yes, the info / manpage doc for a lot of the contributed functions is
sparse.  We don't have any volunteers dedicated to this sort of thing
so they get updated piecemeal when (a) someone notices and (b) that
intersects with [usually another] someone having time to write doc.


      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07  8:41 Stephen Blott
2012-05-07 14:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-05-07 14:24   ` Moritz Bunkus
2012-05-07 14:26     ` Moritz Bunkus
2012-05-07 15:25       ` Bart Schaefer
2012-05-07 16:10         ` Moritz Bunkus
2012-05-07 17:02           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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