From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Allow slash in alternation patterns in limited cases?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:50:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160411145021.6bc5c31a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TKQx4pB7uKjxwVdU+QQyeJTxo7qj6w0Xibq2V7J_Qsqw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:45:02 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Peter Stephenson
> <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> > No, expressions like (foo|bar) are *only* handled by the pattern
> > matcher. The scanner's sole responsibility is to tell the pattern
> > matcher whether or not it should stop if it sees a "/".
>
> Ah, that explains it :). Thanks.
To be unhelpfully pedantic... actually, there's one exception, which is
that (.../) is handled specially so you can stick # or ## after it.
That's a special case in parsecomplist(), which looks a little like
what you're trying to do.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-11 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-10 20:36 Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-10 22:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 8:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 10:22 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 10:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 10:47 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 11:07 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 12:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 12:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 13:45 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 13:50 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2016-04-11 12:06 ` PATCH: Allow / in full pattern alternations Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 13:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 14:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 14:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 14:50 ` Allow slash in alternation patterns in limited cases? Bart Schaefer
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