PATCH: (F) note

PATCH: (F) note

[Peter Stephenson]

Might as well make this clear before people start asking...

The answer to the other question is no, it isn't easier the other way
around.  Glob qualifiers necessarily act as boolean selectors, so
there's no single-character way of expressing directory, non-empty
directory, not a directory.

Index: Doc/Zsh/expn.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.47 expn.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	1 Apr 2004 18:33:22 -0000	1.47
+++ Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	5 Apr 2004 13:09:33 -0000
@@ -1631,7 +1631,10 @@
 directories
 )
 item(tt(F))(
-`full' (i.e. non-empty) directories
+`full' (i.e. non-empty) directories.  Note that the
+opposite sense tt(LPAR()^F)tt(RPAR()) gives files which are
+either empty, or not directories.  Use tt(LPAR()/^F)tt(RPAR()) for
+empty directories
 )
 item(tt(.))(
 plain files

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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Re: PATCH: (F) note

[Wayne Davison]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:26:19PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> +`full' (i.e. non-empty) directories.  Note that the
> +opposite sense tt(LPAR()^F)tt(RPAR()) gives files which are
> +either empty, or not directories.  Use tt(LPAR()/^F)tt(RPAR()) for
> +empty directories

This sentence makes it sound like zsh is checking for zero-length files.
How about this wording:

... Note that the
opposite sense tt(LPAR()^F)tt(RPAR()) results in both
empty directories and non-directories.  Use tt(LPAR()/^F)tt(RPAR())
for just empty directories.

..wayne..