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
next prev parent 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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