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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS - why?
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 24 August 2011 14:02, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
[...]
>> Can someone confirm that suspicion or did I miss a technical issue that
>> can be avoided by having `interactive_comments' unset?
>
> % setopt noextendedglob
> % touch #foo
> % ls #foo
> #foo

Fair enough. But then again, who wouldn't set `extended_glob'? ;)

Still: The choice of having it unset by default might still be for
emulating csh behaviour.  Or maybe not. If someone can remember why it's
off by default, I'd be glad to hear about it.

Regards, Frank