Re: quoting question

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

> On 13/09/2023 02:56 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/23, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 1:23 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Refer workers/51907
> >
> > Incidentally your patch will also change the way the PS2 prompt
> > reports %_ -- for example, it will say it's in a brace expansion even
> > when ignorebraces means that brace expansion is disabled.
> 
> I think it's completely wrong to do this, it becomes impossible to
> write { inside a ${:-here} expansion:
> % echo "${:-{{{{}"
> <dquote braceparam braceparam braceparam braceparam dquote:~code/zsh>%
> % echo "${:-\{\{\{\{}"
> <dquote braceparam braceparam braceparam braceparam dquote:~code/zsh>%
> 
> And even if it was possible with extra quoting, we can't just break
> existing strings that happen to have { in them. { inside "" should be
> completely non-special.

If there's a significant knock-on effect, we'll certainly have to leave it alone.

pws