From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7523 invoked from network); 22 Jul 1997 17:45:37 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Jul 1997 17:45:37 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07513; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:35:40 -0400 (EDT) From: (Zoltan T. Hidvegi) Message-Id: <9707221728.AA15868@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com> Subject: Re: delay argument interpretation In-Reply-To: From hzoli at "Jul 22, 97 01:25:36 pm" To: hzoli@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com (hzoli) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Cc: schaefer@brasslantern.com, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"rJ7yY2.0.co1.hzErp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/965 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu hzoli wrote: > > The latter fails to set $show to empty when the pattern doesn't match > > anything. I have nomatch set, so if there's a globbing failure in the > > arg list, "show" never executes. I want to force "show" to start, and > > *then* get the globbing failure. > > Alias show to noglob show. Oh, I did not read the beginning of the mail. Sorry for my ignorance. Zoltan