From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
Cc: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:10:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547F441E.6060606@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141203164353.GO23965@isis.sigpipe.cz>
On 12/03/2014 08:43 AM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> well, $'' is apparently different syntax from '', and it's dangerous
> to assume that two different syntaxes have the same semantics.
*Another* gotcha yet again? Yes, making assumptions is dangerous, but
not doing anything for fear of the next gotcha is not an option. I
guess one just walks through the mine-field and when things blow up, you
know you've found a mine. It's only software, so no one dies. Trial
and error.
> YMMV, but when i'm working on a script, the biggest slice of the time
> spent with the various zsh* man pages is in zshmisc(1) and zshexpn(1).
> you might also get some new insight from giving them a read or two.
Thanks. So many scrolls!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 0:17 Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 3:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 4:28 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 4:38 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 16:20 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 16:43 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 17:10 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-12-03 17:39 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 21:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:14 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-04 5:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-04 18:42 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-06 21:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-07 0:37 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 21:16 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:40 ` Ray Andrews
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