Actually nevermind, I see now that using the variable "var" is being
expanded, duh.

Is there any way to mark a specific variable name to NOT be expanded in
this way?

*Zach Riggle*


On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:37 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't the output be
>
> ~CODE_AUDIT_HELPERS/install.zsh
>
> ?
>
> *Zach Riggle*
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 11:54 AM Roman Perepelitsa <
> roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 6:37 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think I might have discovered a bug in the (D) expansion of named
>> directories, and I'm not sure how to sort this out.
>> >
>> >     $ echo "${(D)PWD}"
>> >     ~CODE_AUDIT_HELPERS
>> >
>> >     $ var=$PWD/install.zsh
>> >
>> >     $ ls $var
>> >     /Users/zachriggle/.zprezto/modules/code-audit-helpers/install.zsh
>> >
>> >     $ echo "${(D)var}"
>> >     ~var
>> >
>> > Any ideas on what's happening here?  This is on zsh 5.8.1
>>
>> This is working as expected assuming you've enabled auto_name_dirs.
>> This isn't the kind of option I would recommend enabling unless you
>> really know what you are doing.
>>
>> Roman.
>>
>