From: <zeurkous@volny.cz>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Cc: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Subject: RE: revised patch: zshmisc(1) clarify non-successful exit statuses
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:25:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210423222505.2CEEAD21@volny.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865865f0-5578-45cb-affb-a620c00f9f68@www.fastmail.com>
Haai,
"Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> zeurkous@volny.cz wrote on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:18 +00:00:
>> # The copied use of startsitem() was suggested on the same mailing list.
>> # Me hopes me did it right.
>
> Not quite; sitem()() takes two arguments. See, for instance,
> http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#index-zmv
> and Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo:4573.
Oops, sorry. Could you fix that, or do you want me to do another
revision...?
>> # Note that the "operating system-dependent" part is made more
>> # complicated by zsh' habit of de-capitalizing the initial character of
>> # the string returned by strerror(3).
>
> I wouldn't mind losing that habit, actually. It's not zsh's business to
> copyedit a library message, especially when that breaks some use-cases
> (case-sensitive grepping/skimming) and is downright wrong in some cases
> (e.g., in German <https://bugs.debian.org/419233>, or if the error
> message happens to start with word that changes meaning when
> decapitalized, such as "Perl" or "English").
Agreed, let's lose it :)
>
> #419233 has a patch which should still work.
>
>> # Hope this is more useful (it is to me),
>> #
>> # --zeurkous, Fri Apr 23 12:09:47 UTC 2021.
>> #
>> --- Doc/Zsh/..v/5.8/exec.yo Mon Dec 4 14:09:35 2017
>> +++ Doc/Zsh/exec.yo Fri Apr 23 12:02:30 2021
>> @@ -14,10 +14,22 @@
>
> Read the new text and don't have any comments. It's an improvement,
> even if a mention of AUTO_CD hasn't been added.
Good to hear.
> Anyone else wants
> to review?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
NP,
--zeurkous.
--
Friggin' Machines!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-23 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-11 12:15 zeurkous
2021-04-13 15:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-13 18:03 ` zeurkous
2021-04-14 11:03 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-14 11:40 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 12:18 ` revised " zeurkous
2021-04-23 16:07 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-23 16:15 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-23 20:25 ` zeurkous [this message]
2021-04-23 20:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:29 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:57 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:03 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 21:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:18 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 22:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-26 16:25 ` zeurkous
2021-04-29 14:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-05-09 19:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31 1:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31 4:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-05-31 4:37 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-06-30 17:51 ` zeurkous
2021-06-30 22:12 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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