From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>, 516998@bugs.debian.org
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug#516998: zsh regards reserved word as candidate for alias substitution
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:49:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325144931.GA9330@scru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224231846.GA15279@vin.lip.ens-lyon.fr>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:18:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> POSIX.1-2008 says[*]:
>
> 2.3.1 Alias Substitution
> [...] However, reserved words in correct grammatical context
> shall not be candidates for alias substitution.
>
> [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_03_01
>
> but zsh gives:
>
> vin% emulate sh
> vin% alias !="echo OK"
> vin% ! foo
> OK foo
> vin%
>
> instead of running command "foo". ksh93, pdksh, dash and bash
> in POSIX mode all behave correctly.
Where it seems that "correctly" means that setting the alias
succeeds, but ! is never substituted.
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2009-03-25 14:49 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2009-03-25 16:23 ` Peter Stephenson
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