From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: symlink chain.
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:13:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A85B6C.4020103@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150103120252.ZM23074@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 01/03/2015 12:02 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 3, 9:14am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } Whence is a wrench. Wrenches should not be hard to understand and they
> } shouldn't have any gotchas.
>
> Whence is a pocketknife that you seem to want to be a Leatherman tool.
>
> If you want the wrench analogy, wrenches fit on nuts, and nuts of a
> particular shape. The shape of nut that whence fits on is a single
> word that might be a key in one of the command-related hash tables.
> A full file path is not that kind of nut. YOU are making whence hard
> to understand by trying to feed it things it wasn't designed to accept.
>
Well sir, you've made up your mind on that, so I won't flog the subject
further, but to say that if:
$ whence /usr/bin/zsh
... did *not* work, I'd have an easier time accepting your view. But
since it *does* work, I stick to my guns that
$ whence -m /usr/bin/zsh
... should work as well. IMHO the -m should just quietly undertand that
it has nothing to do in that case and bow out gracefully. Anyway, it's
not going to happen. Conversely, the man page could
explain that -m and -a are incompatible with full path filenames, but
that's not going to happen either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-03 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-27 4:50 Ray Andrews
2014-12-27 23:38 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 17:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 18:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 20:27 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-02 21:19 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 21:36 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:53 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 23:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 1:08 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 5:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 5:53 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 7:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 17:14 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 20:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 21:13 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2015-01-03 21:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-03 22:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 0:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 3:45 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 0:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 3:35 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 8:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 20:49 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-05 1:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-05 2:28 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-05 4:24 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:22 ` Bart Schaefer
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