From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Interactive search on the command line?
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 17:38:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TjRRj9t1D0w1SNaJgfdiFUiT0NM=55vH3DTed-iZN5Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151205100013.GC2092@tarsus.local2>
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote on Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 16:59:50 -0800:
>> On Dec 3, 11:39pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> } % () {
>> } local haystack="$1"
> ...
>>
>> % () {
>> local haystack=$1 needle=$2
> ...
>> (I also removed all redundant quotes and braces, since the original
>> would only work in native zsh emulation anyway.)
>
> The quotes are not redundant; they are required for compatibility with
> zsh-5.0.8 and older. (Those releases predate the upgrade of 'local' to
> a reserved word, and, without the quotes, would perform word splitting
> before the assignment.)
Zsh doesn't wordsplit unquoted parameters and if it ever did, it was
probably before any of us were born. You may be confusing the above
with the $(foo) syntax which does wordsplit when unquoted.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-05 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 8:04 Dominik Vogt
2015-11-26 8:20 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-11-27 7:03 ` lilydjwg
2015-11-27 7:34 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-11-29 21:46 ` Scott Frazer
2015-11-30 3:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-02 13:15 ` Scott Frazer
2015-12-03 23:39 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-04 0:40 ` Ray Andrews
2015-12-04 0:50 ` Ray Andrews
2015-12-04 0:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-12-04 20:56 ` Scott Frazer
2015-12-05 10:00 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-05 16:38 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2015-12-05 21:07 ` Bart Schaefer
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