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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:20:34 +0200 (MET DST)
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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:09:49 +0000
Subject: Re: _expand doesn't do brace expansion?


Bart Schaefer wrote:

> This is with all the latest patches (up to 11910):
> 
> zagzig[35] ls Functions/{Misc,Prompts}<TAB>
> Completing `file' or `corrections'(BEEP)
> zagzig[35] ls Functions/{Misc,Prompts}<C-x e>
> (BEEP)
> zagzig[35] ls Functions/{Misc,Prompts}<M-x expand-or-complete RET>
> zagzig[35] ls Functions/Misc Functions/Prompts
> 
> The test on line 85 is making it bail out early, but even with that test
> removed it doesn't expand the braces.

Oh, didn't everyone know that?

  % a='a{x,y}b'
  % echo ${(e)a}
  a{x,y}b
  % echo ${~a}
  a{x,y}b
  % echo damn
  right

Change (e)? Use `eval echo ...'? Urgh?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de