From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Defining commands to not evaluate certain metacharacters
Date: 20 Dec 2003 17:38:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzffvtk5.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031221013206.ZM3220@candle.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:
> On Dec 20, 1:39pm, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> }
> } I want to define a set of commands that I can execute from the command
> } line under zsh.
>
> This is very nearly a non-starter. The shell parses shell syntax, not
> the syntax of some other language.
>
> You can get part of the way there with the "noglob" precommand modifier,
> but that doesn't change the special meanings of parentheses, braces, or
> redirections.
How hard would it be implementing a "noparse" precommand modifier?
I've also been wanting to use such a construct, for example when using
the zmv contributed function.
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-21 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-20 18:39 Lloyd Zusman
2003-12-21 1:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-12-21 1:38 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2003-12-21 6:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-12-22 4:29 ` Philippe Troin
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