* print -D
@ 2013-12-09 10:21 Vincent Lefevre
2013-12-09 21:23 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Vincent Lefevre @ 2013-12-09 10:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
About "print -D", the zshbuiltins(1) man page says:
-D Treat the arguments as directory names, replacing
prefixes with ~ expressions, as appropriate.
But what if an argument is not a directory name? Why directory names
and not just pathnames?
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@ 2013-12-09 21:23 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 2013-12-09 21:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:21:44 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> About "print -D", the zshbuiltins(1) man page says:
>
> -D Treat the arguments as directory names, replacing
> prefixes with ~ expressions, as appropriate.
>
> But what if an argument is not a directory name? Why directory names
> and not just pathnames?
It's not well described.
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index b23ce30..8c7bc85 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -1113,8 +1113,8 @@ Print the arguments in var(cols) columns. Unless tt(-a) is also given,
arguments are printed with the row incrementing first.
)
item(tt(-D))(
-Treat the arguments as directory names, replacing prefixes with tt(~)
-expressions, as appropriate.
+Treat the arguments as paths, replacing directory prefixes with tt(~)
+expressions corresponding to directory names, as appropriate.
)
item(tt(-i))(
If given together with tt(-o) or tt(-O), sorting is performed
pws
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