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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: trivial question
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 11:21:47 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <774550684.6679506.1670325707995@mail.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMpxtSoQpqwutdF9UGswr9Sy4PPaHyouJAfSjUmkcOP0Jg@mail.gmail.com>

> On 06/12/2022 10:18 Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 5:30 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> > The cases where it is going to perform globbing are more universal
> > than those where it is not.
> 
> I know that filename generation is performed in these places:
> 
> - On words of a simple command.
> - Within array initializers.
> - Within for loop initializers.
> 
> You can also enable it in some places with (#q). Are there any other
> places where filename generation takes place? I cannot find this in
> the docs.

There's the special case of the GLOB_ASSIGN option where all
assignments, not just arrays, undergo globbing.  That's for
compatibility with early versions of zsh, otherwise it's very
confusing.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-05  2:05 Ray Andrews
2022-12-05  2:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05  5:20   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-05  6:40     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05 14:11       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06  2:12         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06  2:29           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06  4:29             ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06  6:08               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06 10:18               ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 11:21                 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2022-12-06 15:28               ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 18:53                 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07  0:02                 ` Lawrence Velázquez

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