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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: optimal expansions?
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:46:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7fca7b0-2233-4931-a350-bd990d55df31@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240421201351.n5cku2gqf246joaf@chazelas.org>

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024, at 4:13 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> In any case, for fixed strings, whether to use -- (or - which
> also works for print)  or not is not relevant as long as the
> string doesn't start with "-" (or "+" for some commands).

But that was exactly the situation in question -- not quite a fixed
string, but an argument that cannot begin with "-" or "+".

> print -P "%B%2F${pkg//\%/%%}%f%b"

-- 
vq


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-21 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-19 19:22 Ray Andrews
2024-04-19 20:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-19 23:25   ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-20  7:42 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-04-20 14:23   ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-20 22:54     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-20 23:59       ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-21 12:23     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-04-21 14:09       ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-21 14:19         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-04-21 16:14           ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-04-21 17:39             ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-04-21 20:13               ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-04-21 20:46                 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]

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