From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26493 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2014 02:13:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 33140 Received: (qmail 15271 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2014 02:13:44 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <140910191312.ZM8762@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:13:12 -0700 In-reply-to: <1410369860-31457-1-git-send-email-mikachu@gmail.com> Comments: In reply to Mikael Magnusson "PATCH: P glob qual appends words when negated" (Sep 10, 7:24pm) References: <1410369860-31457-1-git-send-email-mikachu@gmail.com> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: PATCH: P glob qual appends words when negated MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 10, 7:24pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote: } Subject: PATCH: P glob qual appends words when negated } } This is less often useful than prepending, but mplayer has backwards } option parsing, possibly other programs do too. A is already taken and } I'm not sure if this is worth a separate letter. Does anyone object to } the relative grossness of using negation for this? Hrm. I do have one misgiving about this ... which is that negation, once on, applies to all flags that follow until it is turned off. However, I note that the o and O flags use negation in a simailar way (though the fact that there are two makes that less interesting). So this is probably OK.