From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:36:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200702113640.3343ff0c@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3580763ca2a81e24786f92071be073833b820b83.camel@ntlworld.com>
Peter Stephenson wrote on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:42 +0100:
> +++ b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo
> @@ -1097,6 +1097,11 @@ are sorted before those with fewer or none. Hence the array `tt(foo1 foo02
> foo2 foo3 foo20 foo23)' is sorted into the order shown.
> May be combined with `tt(i)' or `tt(O)'.
> )
> +item(tt(DASH()))(
> +As tt(n), but a leading minus sign indicates a negative decimal
> +integer. A solo `tt(DASH())' not followed by an integer does
> +not trigger numeric sorting.
> +)
In the texinfo build DASH() will emit _two_ hyphens, which would be
incorrect in this context. I think both instances of DASH() should be
changed to use a literal minus sign.
The macro is defined as «DEFINEMACRO(DASH)(0)(ifztexi(--)ifnztexi(-))».
Cheers,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-02 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 17:45 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-07-01 18:02 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-07-01 18:07 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-07-01 18:12 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-07-03 18:12 ` Lewis Butler
2020-07-03 18:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-07-01 19:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-02 11:36 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2020-07-02 12:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-03 16:21 ` Hyphens, minuses, and dashes (was: Re: How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers?) Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-02 15:46 ` How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers? Bart Schaefer
2020-07-03 20:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-03 20:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-07-03 22:23 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-07 16:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-07 16:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-01 18:48 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2020-07-06 7:15 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
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