From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: tilde syntax
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:40:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fb34197-be9a-4323-87e0-7052cecf33ea@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aafdd7a4-7f3d-4662-8268-7b83ac470d93@eastlink.ca>
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024, at 6:04 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2024-01-04 14:49, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> No, it turns "do nothing else" into "also act as a glob or pattern".
>> In this example, it's a glob. I tried to find something about that in the manual but it's one of those things where you need to know what to call it in words. Searching for " $~ " hardly works.
Search for "${~spec}", or go here:
https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#index-GLOB_005fSUBST_002c-toggle
>> What do you mean by "works"?
> I mean the code does what I'm expecting.
This is thoroughly unhelpful. Different people can expect different
behaviors, and no one here is psychic. You need to explicitly state
what your expectations are.
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-04 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-04 22:31 Ray Andrews
2024-01-04 22:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-04 23:04 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-04 23:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2024-01-05 0:12 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-05 1:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-05 2:03 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-05 14:41 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-05 16:42 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-05 19:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-05 22:50 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-05 23:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-05 23:47 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-06 0:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-06 3:44 ` Ray Andrews
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