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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Assorted _arguments arguments
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 19:12:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0FU9004JE6L9UK@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Your message of Mon, 08 May 2000 17:58:14 -0000." <1000508175816.ZM17624@candle.brasslantern.com>

Bart wrote:
> On a similar topic, can anyone think of a way to write an exclusive-or
> glob pattern?  E.g. I want to match ChangeLog if that exists, or Changes
> if that exists, but neither if both exist?

I don't think this is possible.  The globbing code matches files
separately.  It would have to look at the list of files already matched to
know whether to reject both that and the new one, which is extremely
hairy.  Obviously you can do it with arrays and things.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>
Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-08 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-08  9:00 PATCH: Re: sudo completion problem Sven Wischnowsky
2000-05-08  9:44 ` optional argument? Sven Wischnowsky
2000-05-08 10:01   ` Peter Stephenson
2000-05-08 14:49   ` Tanaka Akira
2000-05-08 17:58     ` Assorted _arguments arguments Bart Schaefer
2000-05-08 18:12       ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2000-05-08 15:25 ` PATCH: Re: sudo completion problem Tanaka Akira

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