From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with ESMTP id FAA06657 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:21:07 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07859; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:01:29 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:01:29 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <3490.199602191757@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 2.6b13 history question To: P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:57:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jfblank@mtu.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <7271.9602190912@pyro.swan.ac.uk> from "P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk" at Feb 19, 96 09:12:09 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7078.74 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"Lf29a2.0.jw1.phBAn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/775 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >If this seems important, the comparison can be changed to ignore >space. This will do it, though perhaps someone else can think of a >less verbose way. But your patch won't distinguish between `echo " "` and `echo " "`. Oh, try this: $ echo \ # N.B. magic-space is broken here $ !! compare with $ echo \ $ !! -zefram