From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Nate Johnston <nmj3e@virginia.edu>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Mailpath notification message
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:19:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <961105131929.ZM5724@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Nate Johnston <nmj3e@virginia.edu> "Re: Mailpath notification message" (Nov 5, 3:13pm)
On Nov 5, 3:13pm, Nate Johnston wrote:
} Subject: Re: Mailpath notification message
}
} Quite a while ago, there was a person asking how to string long lines into
} his MAILPATH. This is (approximately) what was written as an answer,
} perhaps by Mr. Stephenson (if I remember truly).
Nope, it was me.
} setopt magic_equal_subst # for `export foo=~/bar`
} function export() { EXPORT=${1%%\=*} ; typeset -Ux $* }
} function +() { eval builtin export ${EXPORT}=\$\{$EXPORT\}:\$1 }
} # some stuff snipped
} export MAILPATH= "~/mail/in/inbox?Mail in folder 1"
} + "~/.samizdat/in/inbox?Mail in filder 2"
} # more snipped
} unfunction export +
}
} This used to work for me. Now however, I get the message that the second
} one (~/.samizdat..etc) is not an identifier.
The first export has to look like a real variable assignment:
export MAILPATH="~/mail/in/inbox?Mail in folder 1"
+ "~/.samizdat/in/inbox?Mail in filder 2"
It was never supposed to work with spaces after the `=' sign; that it ever
did was because of poor parsing in eariler versions of zsh.
Also, putting quotes around the leading `~' protects that from expansion
even with magic_equal_subst set, so the eventual value of the variable is:
~/mail/in/inbox?Mail in folder 1:~/.samizdat/in/inbox?Mail in filder 2
Which I *think* works for $MAILPATH but would not work for $PATH etc. It
would be better to say (note position of the quotes):
export MAILPATH=~/mail/in/inbox"?Mail in folder 1"
+ ~/.samizdat/in/inbox"?Mail in filder 2"
Finally, what's a filder? ;->
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-05 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-24 4:37 Rusty Hoover
1996-10-24 5:20 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1996-11-05 20:13 ` Nate Johnston
1996-11-05 21:19 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1996-11-06 5:56 ` Dan Nelson
1996-10-24 7:35 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-10-24 8:41 ` Duncan Sargeant
1996-10-24 9:11 ` Peter Stephenson
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