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On 01/07/2015 11:51 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The hardest part of the zstyle mechanism is grasping the "reverse pattern
> match" lookup mechanism.  Your hypothetical assassination example is
> inaccurate because you're applying the patterns in the wrong "direction".
All I can say is that the 'reverse pattern matching lookup mechanism' is 
less than transparent, in use, or in documentation. Even in 
Peter/Oliver's book, one gets the feeling that even those two masters 
have a sort of 'throw up one's hands' view of it--that one just hopes 
for the best with completion.  This is the deepest well of obscurity in zsh.