From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4808 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2014 17:27:18 -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: 18723 Received: (qmail 18495 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2014 17:27:12 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) 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=3.3.2 From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <140416102727.ZM19090@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:27:27 -0700 In-reply-to: Comments: In reply to shawn wilson "setopt interactivecomments" (Apr 16, 10:35am) References: X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: Zsh Users Subject: Re: setopt interactivecomments MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Apr 16, 10:35am, shawn wilson wrote: } } Why is this feature disabled by default - it seems like enabling and } allowing it to be disabled (since the behavior works in other shells) } would be the correct way to do things? It's disabled because it always has been, and therefore enabling it might break longstanding usage. It has always been disabled because zsh originated as a way to bring Bourne shell syntax to students who had been introduced to BSD Unix via [t]csh, and csh does not have interactive comments. A lot of the default behaviors and interactive design of zsh derive from Paul Falstad (the original author) making subjective judgements about what were the best features of csh and sh, rather than about what features were the most common in other sh clones.