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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "Roman Neuhauser" <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>,
	"Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>,
	"Zsh Users" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:14:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <547F9939.9060303@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bXM8s-8GvkCYjb=PqkeX+LJi+NkVJMLZfgPp4b66ySxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/03/2014 01:14 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> No, this is the same gotcha as before, so to speak.  That's
> dollar-single-single, not dollar-double.  There is no special syntax
> for a double-quote preceded by a dollar.  Roman just didn't put
> anything in between his quotes.
>
Ok, I'll 'stand down' on that.  I'm thinking that might be the end of
the line for quote complexities? Or at least for all the gross
forms?

\
' '
" "
$' '
$( )

... all cross-pollinating each other in various ways, but is that it for
the main species?  It's really not that bad if only one could get
the complete overview somewhere before diving in.

Oh, and of course there's the various flavorings like 'rc_quotes' and
I guess a few others like that.  Tractable.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03 23:32 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
2014-12-03 17:39             ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 21:14             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:14               ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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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