* Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month
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@ 1999-03-09 0:53 ` Phil Pennock
1999-03-11 1:53 ` Geoff Wing
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From: Phil Pennock @ 1999-03-09 0:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh Development Workers
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 ` Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month Phil Pennock
@ 1999-03-11 1:53 ` Geoff Wing
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From: Geoff Wing @ 1999-03-11 1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Phil Pennock <comet@fysh.org> typed:
: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?
:> 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.
You mean, you missed the big discussion that we're emulating Solaris
versioning :-)
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