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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: jdh <dhenman@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to efficiently allow * in a cml string
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:46:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b372942e-3cb9-443b-827e-db833dceccec@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211125210620.6817@sachi>

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, at 12:06 AM, jdh wrote:
> Is there some way the invoiked script can reach into the buffer before 
> zsh complains about the *.
>
> I've tried:  'unsetop GLOB' but that didn't work.

Well yeah, filename expansion happens before the script executes.

> Simple example: How can I get a script to do 2*4 in the below simple version:
>
> 	$  calculate  2*4

Presumably you won't be satisfied with

    calculate '2*4'

or

    noglob calculate 2*4

You may want to read through this thread beginning with users/27103,
which already covered a lot of the same ground.

https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2021/msg00815.html

-- 
vq


      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-26  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-24  5:06 jdh
2021-11-26  5:46 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]

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