From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05875 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:37:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA26090; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:23:05 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610240911.LAA21338@hydra.ifh.de> X-Authentication-Warning: hydra.ifh.de: Host pws@localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list) Subject: Re: Mailpath notification message In-reply-to: "Duncan Sargeant"'s message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:41:16 MET." <199610240841.QAA00731@mermaid.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:11:53 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"JzTjX2.0.8G6.NBpRo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/458 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Duncan Sargeant wrote: > PS: what was the rationale behind quoting tildes? Not critising > it, but this means it isn't a short parameter ... so what is > it? Since it operates on filenames, it's a bit more like globbing than like parameters, though it's not quite that either --- you can quote ~ just like you can quote *. I think POSIX has some words on the subject so that the current semantics is unlikely to change. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413 Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.