From: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: difference between ~ & ^ negation
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 21:11:07 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XnsA2ABD78924168davidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140103134326.ZM11500@torch.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote in
news:140103134326.ZM11500@torch.brasslantern.com:
> On Jan 3, 8:10pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } Corrections I spotted myself before anyone else picks nits.
>
> Sadly, here come some nits anyway.
>
> } + For matching files by globbing, mytt(~) is the only globbing
> } + operator to have a lower precedence than mytt(/). In other
> words, } + when you have mytt(/a/path/to/match~/a/path/not/to/match)
> the mytt(~) } + considers what's before and what's after as complete
> paths to file names.
>
> In my first response on this thread, I struggled mightily with how to
> explain exactly how the before/after patterns are applied. The phrase
> "complete paths to file names" might be considered to mean that the
> paths must start from the root (which your example further suggests),
> but in fact they're not "complete" paths. For purposes of the pattern
> before the tilde, it matches ordinary path references which unless
> begun with a slash are relative to $PWD. For purposes of the pattern
> after the tilde, it matches strings, which merely happen to be [parts
> of] the names of things derived from the paths matched by the before
> part.
Hi will there be a summary of this for us mere mortals :)
Will the FAQs be changed and if so can you point us at the relevant
sections
zzapper
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-04 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-01 15:28 zzapper
2014-01-01 21:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-02 21:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-02 21:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-02 22:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-03 1:55 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-01-03 7:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-03 19:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-03 20:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-03 21:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-04 21:11 ` zzapper [this message]
2014-01-05 10:01 ` Eike von Seggern
[not found] ` <8lp61n01B02mHnv01lp8uc>
2014-01-03 20:56 ` how to shut off auto spell steve
2014-01-03 21:52 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <9ZwH1n01Z02mHnv01ZwLWZ>
2014-01-03 22:07 ` steve
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