From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Vim syntax file for zsh
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041211200242.GA9581@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041211161259.GA4537@sc>
* Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr> [Dec 11, 2004 17:30]:
> > % echo hi[
> > zsh: bad pattern: hi[
> > % [ -n "$1" ]
> > %
> >
> > Quoting the first makes sense if you want to echo the string "hi[".
> > Quoting the [ in [ -n "$1" ] makes no sense at all.
> > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> Yes, you're right, I had not made the test myself as I expected
> it to work the same as in any other shell.
> echo foo[
> works OK in every shell but zsh.
% setopt nobadpattern
% echo hi[
hi[
> If you've got a command named foo[, though,
> foo[ bar
> doesn't work with ksh or bash (because, they take it as the
> start of an array subscript assignment). It's OK with pdksh,
> though.
Yeah, [ is heavily overloaded ;-),
nikolai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-11 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-01 7:40 Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-01 8:43 ` Danek Duvall
2004-12-01 12:02 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-03 8:02 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-04 15:54 ` Clint Adams
2004-12-04 16:42 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-04 17:00 ` OT: vim maintainer [Re: Vim syntax file for zsh] Clint Adams
2004-12-04 22:04 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-04 16:42 ` Vim syntax file for zsh Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-08 8:13 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-08 13:47 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-08 18:14 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-09 13:59 ` lists
2004-12-09 14:45 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-09 16:36 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-09 18:18 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-09 18:23 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-09 20:09 ` Wayne Davison
2004-12-09 21:24 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-09 22:43 ` Wayne Davison
2004-12-09 23:26 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-12 4:41 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-12 13:34 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-12 16:40 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-12 20:10 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-13 3:41 ` Doug Kearns
2004-12-10 8:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2004-12-10 15:27 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-10 15:46 ` Stephane Chazelas
2004-12-11 13:24 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-12-11 16:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2004-12-11 20:02 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2004-12-08 13:15 ` Doug Kearns
2004-12-01 15:32 ` Ziggy
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