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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:22:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aWkfTgRdKTcHjKJHCTfwhLhk8WaAMKABO8=AvEcJ5Nyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547F385B.3070405@eastlink.ca>

(Oops, sorry for Cc'ing everybody on that last message.)

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> But the zshbuiltins page, under 'print' doesn't go into any detail about
> this    $'foo'
> form.

It doesn't go into detail about ANY form of quoting ... because
quoting is evaluated the same way no matter what command is involved.

(The special meaning of backslash to certain commands like print and
echo is entirely separate from quoting, though often similar in
effect.)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03 21:22 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
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 [this message]
2014-12-03 23:40           ` Ray Andrews

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