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From: Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: In the tla completion function: "${(@P)var_cmd-*:FILE:_files}"
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:40:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820164034.GB6405@s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408200842470.27591@toltec.zanshin.com>

[Bart Schaefer]

>> Hmm, strange that my shell gives 'bad substitution' when
>> var_cmd is not defined.

> So does Jason's, I'm sure.  Jason's point is that var_cmd should
> NEVER BE "not defined" in the _tla function.  It's defined at the
> point where it's declared, to be the second word on the command
> line.

OK, now I get it; the '-' fallback doesn't test var_cmd, but
the variable named by the expansion of $var_cmd:

  % unset foo
  % var_cmd=foo
  % echo "${(@P)var_cmd-*:FILE:_files}"
  *:FILE:_files

-- 
 Haakon


      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-16 21:32 Haakon Riiser
2004-08-17  0:52 ` Jason McCarty
2004-08-20  8:55   ` Haakon Riiser
2004-08-20 16:05     ` Bart Schaefer
2004-08-20 16:40       ` Haakon Riiser [this message]

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