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Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rhea.home.vuxu.org [local]) by rhea.home.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id b57eff35 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Leah Neukirchen To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: _brace_parameter: misleading help text for # Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:35:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87im12pj3i.fsf@vuxu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Seq: 26793 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Hi, echo ${( shows ... # -- evaluate as numeric expression ... zshexpn(1) says: # Evaluate the resulting words as numeric expressions and output the characters corresponding to the resulting integer. I think the help text is missing the crucial bit here: output the characters corresponding to the resulting integer. Perhaps "#:evaluate as numeric expression and interpret as character codes" or so would be a better description. Thanks, -- Leah Neukirchen https://leahneukirchen.org/