From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: bug 3.1.5 symlinks & cd
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:41:09 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199811181341.OAA15564@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:06:40 +0100
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > So the question is: do you think that this is enough (probably with
> > some more work on the function) or should we build this into the shell?
>
> Isn't the problem only with ../ ? -/ and the rest happily follow
> symlinks, it's only when going up there's a problem. In that case, it
> would be OK to use -/ most of the time and only have a special
> function when there's a ../ in the string so far. As the only case
> where you would normally use this is ../ at the start (although I've
> been known to use $PWD/.. when I needed an absolut path), I should
> have thought a shell function for this one case would have been quite
> good enough. ../../ etc. is a complication, but one a function could
> still easily handle. (Unless I've missed some other potential
> problem.)
I don't see any other problem either. So I won't dive into the
completion code today, fine.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
next reply other threads:[~1998-11-18 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-18 13:41 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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1998-11-18 9:09 Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-18 13:06 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-11-18 19:25 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-18 22:41 ` Phil Pennock
1998-11-16 9:28 Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-13 21:19 Phil Pennock
1998-11-14 5:48 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-15 3:01 ` Phil Pennock
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