From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: syntactic question
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:40:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546FE98E.6010006@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZnW=FbwAKtU0ue8_3bp7Rr3X9bx9BNCv2HVCtSu+QeAg@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/21/2014 04:00 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2014 3:46 PM, "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> Bart, is there some readable doc that wraps it all up? In practice I
> get most all my problems solved now, but I despair of really understanding
> it, I tend to use trial and error.
>
> Minimally, section 6.9 Quoting in the zsh info explains the three types of
> quotes (backticks look like quotes but are really a substitution).
>
> Then you need 14.3 Parameter Expansion and 14.4 Command Substitution to
> explain what happens inside double quotes. 14.3.2 Rules and 14.3.3
> Examples may be the most helpful.
>
Thanks, it's queued.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-22 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-21 20:23 Ray Andrews
2014-11-21 21:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-21 23:46 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-22 0:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-22 1:40 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-11-21 21:42 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-11-21 23:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-22 4:39 ` Ray Andrews
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=546FE98E.6010006@eastlink.ca \
--to=rayandrews@eastlink.ca \
--cc=zsh-users@zsh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).