Hello, hope I'm doing this banching of the thread the right way
I would like to understand this:

% echo "${:-{{{{}"
<dquote braceparam braceparam braceparam braceparam dquote:~code/zsh>%

is that output generated automatically or was it human-made?

thanks

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno mer 13 set 2023 alle ore 05:42 Bart Schaefer <
schaefer@brasslantern.com> ha scritto:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 7:51 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Unless I misunderstood, adding 'setopt ignorebraces' to the function,
> returned the
> > same results as it did without it. Don't know if that helps, or confuses
> things more.
>
> You have to setopt ignorebraces before you define the datetimetest
> function.  Otherwise the internals of the function have already been
> parsed and the behavior doesn't change.
>
>