From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 223 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1999 08:44:01 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Sep 1999 08:44:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 24852 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 1999 08:43:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7942 Received: (qmail 24845 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1999 08:43:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:43:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199909200843.KAA06289@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:57:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments Bart Schaefer wrote: > though it would be really useful if $param:q could emit quoting instead of > backslashes. I would be against this because its much less useful in cases where you stuff together string from multiple parameters. However, in its first life `:q' did that and we could use the doubled-flag convention so that `${(qq)foo}' would emit stuff in single quotes. (Tripled for double quotes?) Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de