From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22620 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2001 08:47:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Mar 2001 08:47:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 13500 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2001 08:47:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13831 Received: (qmail 13489 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2001 08:47:41 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1010329084711.ZM18150@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:47:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200103290814.KAA14298@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Comments: In reply to Sven Wischnowsky "Re: PATCH: Re: Backticks and other tricks" (Mar 29, 10:14am) References: <200103290814.KAA14298@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Backticks and other tricks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 29, 10:14am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } } The only case where the patch would cause trouble is that there are } two (or more) options, one being a prefix of the other and the } prefixish one gets an argument that has to come directly after the } option. A *very* seldom case I would say. The only thing that worries me, given this explanation, is clusters of single-letter options, like some of the very specialized cases in _rpm. A whole lot of work went into making those cluster in just about every ordering that might make sense to rpm, and some of them are pretty odd; for example, -i means something different when it's the first option on the line than it does when it follows -q, so `rpm -iq...' completes differently from `rpm -qi...'. It doesn't *appear* that anything has gone wrong with it, but there are so many possible combinations to try ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net