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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:38:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9CD0DDE8-21AB-4EA3-A69F-9B338ECC83F1@macports.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547E9158.6050103@eastlink.ca>

On Dec 2, 2014, at 11:28 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> On 12/02/2014 07:02 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
>> Once again you're confused about how quoting works.  The variable isn't
>> inside single quotes at the time the prompt is expanded.  In fact, in your
>> example $'...' is NOT the same as single quotes.
> 
> God knows.  If ' ... ' isn't single quotes then is sure has me fooled.  One day
> it will all make sense.  I know everything is different with prompt strings tho,
> it's a world unto itself where single quotes are not single quotes.

Peruse the "QUOTING" section in zshmisc(1). Surrounding a string with single quotes ('foo') is not the same as surrounding a string with single quotes preceded by a dollar sign ($'foo').

vq

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-03  0:17 Ray Andrews
2014-12-03  3:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03  4:28   ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03  4:38     ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2014-12-03 16:20       ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 16:43         ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 17:10           ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 17:39             ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 21:14             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:14               ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-04  5:06                 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-04 18:42                   ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-06 21:28                     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-07  0:37                       ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 21:16         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 21:22         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:40           ` Ray Andrews

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