Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2021-01-29 7:33 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
>
> `ls` without arguments lists files in the current directory. This is
> mandated by POSIX and what everyone expects.
Of course.
>
> `no_such_file(N)` expands to nothing if there is no file named
> `no_such_file` in the current directory. This is in line with the zsh
> documentation and what everyone expects.
That's about what I I expected to hear.  zsh can't be expected to feed 
'ls' with something that duplicates a non-existent file, it can only 
remove the non-existent file thus leaving no argument thus ls must be 
'ls *'.  I had thought there might be some hidden mechanism by which ls 
might be informed that the given argument fails but I can quite 
understand that no such thing exists -- zsh just removes the 
non-existent argument and that's all she can do and ls is on it's own.  
Thanks Roman.