From: Phil Pennock <comet@fysh.org>
To: Zsh Development Workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:53:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990309005325.C11578@fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9902250957.AA30563@ibmth.df.unipi.it>; from "Peter Stephenson" on Thu 25 Feb 1999 (10:57 +0100)
Okay, I've caught up on everything and not seen anything on this, so...
Typing away merrily, Peter Stephenson produced the immortal words:
> 3.22: How do I get a variable's value to be evaluated as another variable?
>
> The problem is that you have a variable $E containing the string
> `EDITOR', and a variable $EDITOR containing the string `emacs',
> or something such. How do you get from $E to emacs in one easy
> stage?
>
> There is no standard single-stage way of doing this. However, there
> is a zsh idiom (available in all versions of zsh since 5.0) for this:
zsh 5.0 already? I wasn't busy _that_ long.
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1999-03-09 0:53 ` Phil Pennock [this message]
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