From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>,
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Next release (5.3)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:58:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712075849.GG1537@isis.sigpipe.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160707102031.ZM23611@torch.brasslantern.com> <20160705093321.79d7c4bc@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
Belatedly chiming in as someone who writes scripts in zsh
and uses :A in those.
I understand the issue is that although zshexpn(1) claims...
This call is equivalent to `a` unless your system has the realpath
system call (modern systems do).
... this is not the case. Correct? Well, I use it for this
exact purpose.
# schaefer@brasslantern.com / 2016-07-07 10:20:31 -0700:
> On Jul 7, 2:00am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> }
> } To everyone who asked about compatibility: under the existing semantics
> } of :A, "$foo" and "$foo:A" might denote different files.
>
> But that implies that "$foo" and "$foo:a" might also denote different
> files, so why is *that* a useful transformation?
It's not, and I don't use it.
# p.stephenson@samsung.com / 2016-07-05 09:33:21 +0100:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 08:04:24 -0700
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> > (1) Daniel's suggested change to :A [care to offer an opinion?]
>
> I'd be vaguely inclined to make sure it does what the doc currently says
> and leave it at that.
I'd prefer (it would *fix* my scripts) this to happen.
> But that's only because I've not worked out a case where I want anything
> different. It's too difficult to come up with a categorical answer because
> it depends whether the user is used to CHASE_BLAH behaviour (I'm not
> suggesting option-specific behaviour, either).
Has anyone brought up any realistic (as in: I'm going to use it for
such-and-such) scenario for these CHASE_FOO-related variations?
It looks like you're spending energy on something no one has any use for.
--
roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-05 4:57 realpath(3), symlinks, '..' components, and the ':A' word modifier Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-05 12:54 ` Roland Eggner
2016-07-05 13:24 ` Vadim Zeitlin
2016-07-06 15:15 ` Filipe
[not found] ` <20160705125430.GA29959__3886.85245202414$1467723835$gmane$org@mobil.systemanalysen.net>
2016-07-07 2:00 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-07 17:20 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <20160705093321.79d7c4bc@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
2016-07-12 7:58 ` Roman Neuhauser [this message]
2016-07-12 16:40 ` Next release (5.3) Bart Schaefer
2016-07-12 20:23 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-07-13 2:56 ` Filipe Silva
2016-07-13 4:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-13 5:09 ` Filipe Silva
2016-07-13 9:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-07-13 9:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-07-13 16:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-13 16:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-07-13 17:50 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <20160713105910.2b33701c__17004.846657119$1468404086$gmane$org@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
2016-07-17 14:59 ` Daniel Shahaf
[not found] ` <20160713103233.14bfd05a__26126.9551389434$1468402471$gmane$org@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
2016-07-17 14:59 ` [PATCH] improve :A docs (was: Re: Next release (5.3)) Daniel Shahaf
[not found] ` <20160717145931.GA4859__10178.6871244714$1468767679$gmane$org@tarsus.local2>
2016-07-20 6:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-13 7:41 ` Next release (5.3) Roman Neuhauser
2016-07-13 17:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-20 13:05 ` Vincent Lefevre
2016-07-20 14:00 ` Vincent Lefevre
2016-07-20 14:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-07-20 14:19 ` Peter Stephenson
[not found] ` <20160720151517.6a833f2c__37436.2382958227$1469024822$gmane$org@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
2016-07-21 5:40 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-21 9:19 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-07-21 3:50 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <160712094017.ZM17395__33553.1437922784$1468341719$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2016-07-13 5:00 ` Daniel Shahaf
[not found] ` <20160712075849.GG1537__20664.8654224866$1468310440$gmane$org@isis.sigpipe.cz>
2016-07-13 5:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-20 12:44 ` realpath(3), symlinks, '..' components, and the ':A' word modifier Vincent Lefevre
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