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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:40:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160326084042.ZM12055@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322094614.13b07bf4@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

On Mar 22,  9:46am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
}
} On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:54:21 -0700
} Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
} > 
} > As Mikael has already pointed out, files with names ending in a tilde
} > followed by an exclusion pattern may cause trouble with this.
} 
} Yes, they do: [...]
} 
} ~# might work instead.

Maybe this should be a glob qualifier instead of a pattern, since it does
not make sense in generic pattern context.  We have Y3 to short-circuit
after 3 matches; perhaps Y~ to short-circuit when an exclusion matches?
Or are qualifiers also parsed too late?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-26 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-21 18:36 Peter Stephenson
2016-03-21 20:39 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-03-21 22:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-03-22  9:46   ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-22 11:46     ` Jesper Nygårds
2016-03-23  9:56       ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-26 15:40     ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2016-04-07 20:10       ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-08  3:18         ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-09 18:22           ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-09 19:00             ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-09 19:51               ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-10  5:40                 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-10 12:11                   ` Peter Stephenson

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