From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7984 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2014 05:57:02 -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: 19595 Received: (qmail 27689 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2014 05:57:01 -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 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=D9vw8UVm c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=FT8er97JFeGWzr5TCOCO5w==:117 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=q2GGsy2AAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=gX5Gdo-8Cn2oFdaoRDwA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <141218215728.ZM28835@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:57:28 -0800 In-reply-to: Comments: In reply to Kurtis Rader "Re: surprise with echo" (Dec 18, 8:14pm) References: <54937E5B.2020008@eastlink.ca> <141218190653.ZM16331@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: Zsh Users Subject: Re: surprise with echo MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Dec 18, 8:14pm, Kurtis Rader wrote: } } Bart, It appears to me that zsh treatment of "setopt rc_expand_param" is } *not* consistent with the Plan 9 rc shell. That would not be surprising. A number of rc and ksh features were put into zsh based entirely on Paul Falstad's interpretation of the other shells' documentation, with no access to an actual implementation of the other shell to compare results. I personally have never tried out the Plan 9 shell. } As a grey-beard (I fell in love with UNIX in the 1980's when the } C-shell was bleeding edge) I'm familiar with all the major variants of } shells and kernels. We ought to have a secret handshake or something by this point. I led the team that ported Z-Mail to 29 different UNIX variants and three windowing systems, back in the 90's, after spending my grad school years in the 80s parallelizing applications for the Sequent machine and playing with Smalltalk on a Tektronix 4315 running UTek. Did you ever get to program Occam in the folding editor, for Transputer apps? (Good lord it's been a long time since I uttered any of those words.) -- Barton E. Schaefer