From: "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>
To: zsh-users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Porting an alias from bash to zsh fails.
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:14:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041023231442.GA24632@infidel.spots.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mzyd6pzp.fsf@asfast.com>
Incoming from Lloyd Zusman:
> "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> writes:
> >
> > RXVTNEWSFONT='-*-neep alt-medium-*-normal-*-*-100-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1'
> >
> > alias dfn="rxvt +sb -fn $RXVTNEWSFONT -geometry 128x51+69+42 \
> > -e nice /usr/bin/slrn -f /home/keeling/.jnewsrc-dfn \
> > -h news.individual.net"
> [snip]
> To protect this from occurring, put single quotes around that variable
> in the alias definition:
>
> alias dfn="rxvt +sb -fn '$RXVTNEWSFONT' -geometry 128x51+69+42 \
> -e nice /usr/bin/slrn -f /home/keeling/.jnewsrc-dfn \
> -h news.individual.net"
> [snip]
>
> This works because the single quotes are treated as normal (non-quoting)
.....................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> characters when inside of double quotes; therefore, the RXVTNEWSFONT
..^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That was a surprise to me. Thanks. Your excellent explanation has
solved it for me. Much appreciated.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-23 21:52 s. keeling
[not found] ` <m3mzyd6pzp.fsf@asfast.com>
2004-10-23 23:14 ` s. keeling [this message]
2004-10-24 4:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-10-24 4:25 ` Lloyd Zusman
2004-10-24 4:51 ` s. keeling
2004-10-24 15:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-10-24 19:41 ` s. keeling
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