From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG]builtin echo error doing arguments parsing
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:26:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222172601.2b7cb68b@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3SFx4LNz_DFBSJS1f9v8__+0N5gR9HvmhNDfvBYYx5eow@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:50:48 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Peter Stephenson
> <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:37:11 +0000
> > Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:23:09 -0800
> >> wumingxwk@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > if there is only a '-' as argument,builtin echo won't print it
> >>
> >> You might have thought it should at least be turned off in some or most
> >> of the emulation modes...
> >
> > Would look something like this. Probably a good idea if there aren't
> > subtleties?
>
> If we change it now, people would have to add a version check in
> addition to their check for zsh to be able to echo things portably (to
> know if they should add an extra - or not).
The portable option is "--", which has worked for a long time. Adding -
would be a zsh kludge, nothing to do with portability.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-22 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2018-02-22 7:23 ` wumingxwk
2018-02-22 9:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-02-22 10:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-02-22 16:50 ` Mikael Magnusson
2018-02-22 17:26 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2018-02-22 19:00 ` Mikael Magnusson
2018-02-22 19:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-22 19:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-02-24 8:20 ` Stephane Chazelas
2018-02-24 9:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-02-24 19:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2019-04-27 6:46 ` Stephane Chazelas
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