From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26039 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2014 23:20:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19306 Received: (qmail 15420 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2014 23:20:37 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=HYUtEE08 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WX1zAfUMD62odRRZjfQOeg==:117 a=WX1zAfUMD62odRRZjfQOeg==:17 a=gmhVCtT3eHoA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=oNijoeoCg40xK7vNDAkA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <54556B7D.6070800@eastlink.ca> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:23:41 -0700 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.1.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: first adventures References: <544D2D6F.8030505@eastlink.ca> <20141026175257.2611487b@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <544FD6DD.7010806@eastlink.ca> <141028210510.ZM10784@torch.brasslantern.com> <54510A96.20009@eastlink.ca> <141029134624.ZM15681@torch.brasslantern.com> <545178DF.1040600@eastlink.ca> <141029210738.ZM15833@torch.brasslantern.com> <5452ED18.7070208@eastlink.ca> <141030195906.ZM30057@torch.brasslantern.com> <5453D0AE.6020705@eastlink.ca> <20141031195903.167d3e05@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <545460D9.2090804@eastlink.ca> <54550BE5.6080602@eastlink.ca> <20141101184028.0737142d@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <54554194.80109@eastlink.ca> <20141101211126.4c26682c@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> In-reply-to: <20141101211126.4c26682c@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 11/01/2014 02:11 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > Perhapse the real point is what you're looking at is an unusual case in > that you've been passed a piece of raw shell input and you're thinking > about what it would look like if it wasn't raw any more. This is hairy > stuff that most people who consider themselves shell language gurus > probably never have to think about --- extracting bits of semi-parsed > chunks of input is something most people would do in a language like > Lisp rather than a shell. So it's not surprising you're a bit > bamboozled when you're coming to this out of nowhere. Bamboozled ain't the half of it. But it's ok, what Bart showed me is quite satisfactory. I should spend less time speculating. But I wonder if anyone in the next generation of zsh users is going to be able to explain, or even understand half of this stuff. Sheesh, I thought that as a newbie, a good place to start looking at the code was where we first swallow a command line. But that was a long long time ago ;-) > pws >