From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:43:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141203164353.GO23965@isis.sigpipe.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547F385B.3070405@eastlink.ca>
# rayandrews@eastlink.ca / 2014-12-03 08:20:43 -0800:
> On 12/02/2014 08:38 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > Peruse the "QUOTING" section in zshmisc(1). Surrounding a string with
> > single quotes ('foo') is not the same as surrounding a string with
> > single quotes preceded by a dollar sign ($'foo'). vq
>
> Thanks, that's a nice summary. It's especially nice of it to mention
> the $'foo' gotcha, which is ignored in other docs. Just when I
> thought I knew what a single quote was :( But the zshbuiltins page,
> under 'print' doesn't go into any detail about this $'foo' form.
> Never mind, the prompt string is the only place I've seen it so far
> and I'm forewarned now for the next time I see it.
well, $'' is apparently different syntax from '', and it's dangerous to
assume that two different syntaxes have the same semantics.
YMMV, but when i'm working on a script, the biggest slice of the time
spent with the various zsh* man pages is in zshmisc(1) and zshexpn(1).
you might also get some new insight from giving them a read or two.
--
roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 0:17 Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 3:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 4:28 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 4:38 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 16:20 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 16:43 ` Roman Neuhauser [this message]
2014-12-03 17:10 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 17:39 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 21:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:14 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-04 5:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-04 18:42 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-06 21:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-07 0:37 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 21:16 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:40 ` Ray Andrews
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