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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: ls *.mp4 → ls : invalid option -- 'M'
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 17:46:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aSDGQJZr8QuNe95QeKtRPJ-ygLVZegNau787qe0HMK8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312746524.945376.1697209990281@mail.virginmedia.com>

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 8:13 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> It's more that it's up to the zsh user, and if they don't know what to
> do, they're going to ask the zsh users mailing list.  It's a very
> generic Unix shell issue; you can argue whether shells should work like
> this but it's way too late now.

It would be pretty easy to add a setopt that would prefix any glob
result that begins with '-' or Dash with "./".  (Or I suppose any glob
that doesn't start with '.' or '/' if that's more generic.)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-16  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-13  7:59 Denis Bitouzé
2023-10-13  8:15 ` sergio
2023-10-13  8:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-10-13 11:38   ` Denis Bitouzé
2023-10-13 14:46   ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-13 15:13     ` Peter Stephenson
2023-10-13 15:58       ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-16  0:46       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2023-10-16  4:17         ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16  4:25           ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 13:35             ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-16 18:21               ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 19:45                 ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-17  3:49                   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-17 14:04                     ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-17 15:55                       ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-17 17:03                         ` Ray Andrews

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