From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:11:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160410131108.2cdd283d@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160409224042.ZM25419@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:40:42 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 8:51pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I think Mikael is asking about specifying both conditions in the *same*
> glob pattern, i.e. **/*~*/foo~*/bar(Y-) such that bar directories are
> short-circuited whereas only paths ending in foo are excluded, but any
> files below a directory foo remain. Your doc and the comments about
> treating multiple ~ as if they were | seem to imply that both foo and
> bar would be short-circuited in this example.
>
> Of course one can still write **/*~*/foo~*/bar/* without (Y-).
Right, you have to pick one or the other meaning.
If this becomes important we could force (#e) only to match on
a complete match, which is sort of what it's for. But I wouldn't
expect this to be a real problem.
pws
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-10 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 18:36 Peter Stephenson
2016-03-21 20:39 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-03-21 22:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-03-22 9:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-22 11:46 ` Jesper Nygårds
2016-03-23 9:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-26 15:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-07 20:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-08 3:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-09 18:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-09 19:00 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-09 19:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-10 5:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-10 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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