From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: configurability of pattern characters, part 2
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:09:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604160952.3469c7a5@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZoXCd0_LeakOOGDp3gdpC0CWrCcmgSzM_UTnu7h1sakg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:50:23 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Peter Stephenson
> <p.stephenson@samsung.com>wrote:
>
> > haswilds() is going to have to expand somewhat.
> >
>
> Hrm, this idea has fingers in a lot of pies.
Obviously the glob code depends on patterns... is there something else
I've missed?
> Maybe I should be asking what motivated you to do this in the first
> place?
The feeling that people aren't using extended globbing because it's got
bits they don't want that confuse matters: ^ (with e.g. stty) and ~
(with backup files, particularly those with a ~ in the middle) are
particular gotchas.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-04 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-31 23:29 PATCH: configurability of pattern characters, part 1 Peter Stephenson
2013-06-01 6:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-06-01 20:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-06-02 7:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-06-03 8:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-06-03 15:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-06-03 15:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-06-01 23:09 ` PATCH: configurability of pattern characters, part 2 Peter Stephenson
2013-06-04 6:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-06-04 8:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-06-04 14:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-06-04 15:09 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2013-06-09 18:06 ` Peter Stephenson
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