From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.de>
To: zsh users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: confusing passage in zshexpn(1)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061212113120.GD2399@fsst.voodoo.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <061211200101.ZM18194@torch.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>:
> On Dec 12, 1:21am, Frank Terbeck wrote:
[...]
> } But the manual suggests that this should work.
>
> People are WAY too "suggestible."
>
> Not every fragment that appears as part of a sentence is desgined to be
> usable as a literal stand-alone example! [...]
Yes, I agree. People should not take single sentences from the manual
out of context.
> } How could this be included in the manual?
>
> As it happens, this fragment DOES work if you setopt NO_BARE_GLOB_QUAL.
> That you need to use NO_BARE_GLOB_QUAL to avoid having trailing parens
> interpreted as glob qualifiers is documented in several other places.
> It's wildly impractical to document every possible interaction of the
> dozens of tangentially related options at every example.
[...]
ACK.
Apparently I should have thought a little more thoroughly before
posting. Sorry.
Regards, Frank
--
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- RFC 1925
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 0:21 Frank Terbeck
2006-12-12 4:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-12-12 11:31 ` Frank Terbeck [this message]
2006-12-12 15:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-12-12 10:43 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-12-12 11:42 ` Frank Terbeck
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