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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: `cd .` in non-existent directory leads into weird corner case
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:56:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD77+gT4LXRyTL8V1UZrNfCohyJ9peTNdfZ=G7Q-sJcDnyNE8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

maybe I am misunderstanding zsh's intentions here, but this behaviour
seems to be quite useless/counter-intuitive and potentially harmful:

richih@adamantium  ~ % zsh -f
adamantium% PS1="%~ %# "
~ % mkdir testdir
~ % cd testdir
~/testdir % rmdir ~/testdir
~/testdir % cd .
. % ls
. % pwd
.
. % cd ..
. % pwd
.
. %

Wouldn't it be better if zsh threw an error as soon as the user tries to `cd .`?


Thanks,
Richard


             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-27  0:56 Richard Hartmann [this message]
2012-03-27  5:13 ` Daniel Shahaf
2012-03-27 14:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-27 15:25   ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-02  9:52   ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-02 10:12     ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-02 10:56       ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:00         ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-02 11:10           ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:39             ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-03  9:51             ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03  9:57             ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-03 10:16               ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-03 11:11                 ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03 14:06                 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-04-02 10:15     ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 10:33       ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-02 10:46         ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-02 11:07       ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-02 12:59       ` Richard Hartmann
2012-04-03  4:04         ` Jun T.
2012-04-03 14:43           ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-04 17:03             ` Jun T.
2012-04-05 14:20               ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-05 16:17                 ` Jun T.
2012-04-15  1:17                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-04-15 18:07                     ` Bart Schaefer

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