From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zsh regards reserved word as candidate for alias substitution
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:33:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090303173303.3f9360e3@news01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303172324.72e939c8@news01>
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:23:24 +0000
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> +but the alias will never be expanded. Reserved words are
Probably better:
Index: Doc/Zsh/options.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/options.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -u -r1.77 options.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/options.yo 3 Mar 2009 17:26:07 -0000 1.77
+++ Doc/Zsh/options.yo 3 Mar 2009 17:31:57 -0000
@@ -1715,31 +1715,9 @@
item(tt(POSIX_ALIASES) <K> <S>)(
When this option is set, reserved words are not candidates for
alias expansion: it is still possible to declare any of them as an alias,
-but the alias will never be expanded. Reserved words are
-tt(!),
-tt([[),
-tt({),
-tt(}),
-tt(case),
-tt(coproc),
-tt(do),
-tt(done),
-tt(elif),
-tt(else),
-tt(end),
-tt(esac),
-tt(fi),
-tt(for),
-tt(foreach),
-tt(function),
-tt(if),
-tt(nocorrect),
-tt(repeat),
-tt(select),
-tt(then),
-tt(time),
-tt(until),
-tt(while).
+but the alias will never be expanded. Reserved words are described in
+ifnzman(noderef(Reserved Words))\
+ifzman(the section RESERVED WORDS in zmanref(zshmisc)).
Alias expansion takes place while text is being read; hence when this
option is set it does not take effect until the end of any function or
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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2009-02-25 0:17 Vincent Lefevre
2009-03-03 17:23 ` Peter Stephenson
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