From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hacking and development)
Subject: foo(:...) and foo~ glob
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:27:13 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805022027.PAA09387@hzoli.home> (raw)
After this change:
Sun Apr 5 20:00:40 1998 Andrew Main <zefram@fysh.org>
+ parens always trigger globbing
+ with EXTENDED_GLOB, embedded `~' triggers globbing,
as the documentation already states
the (:quals) syntax no longer works. The idea was that foo(:...) should
not do globbing if there are no wildcard, but it should execute the
modifiers. This is very useful for general text manipulation. Of course
${${:-foo}:...} still works, but it's quite ugly.
The other change related to ~ with EXTENDED_GLOB. Before ~ was only
treated as exclusion character if it was not at the end of the word and
the word contained other glob characters. This allowed you to write
ls *~
rm foo~
dd if=~/foo of=bar
etc. None of these work anymore. I know there was a special case for
the (:...) stuff before in haswilds which was not very complicated. I
know that someone else has also complained, so it's not only me.
Zoli
next reply other threads:[~1998-05-02 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-02 20:27 Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1998-05-02 22:27 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-03 3:22 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-05 8:53 ` Andrew Main
1998-05-05 8:48 ` Andrew Main
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