From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12995 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2014 03:45:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 33551 Received: (qmail 5850 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2014 03:45:28 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=HYUtEE08 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Jo8+aa5pSBmSq6qAtEZJxQ==:117 a=Jo8+aa5pSBmSq6qAtEZJxQ==:17 a=sicYhokT53YA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=A_Ewq2cYk673oFRAB2IA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <544DC07E.9010208@eastlink.ca> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:48:14 -0700 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: first adventures References: <544D2D6F.8030505@eastlink.ca> <141026105032.ZM13782@torch.brasslantern.com> <544D5242.7000505@eastlink.ca> <141026140439.ZM14760@torch.brasslantern.com> In-reply-to: <141026140439.ZM14760@torch.brasslantern.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 10/26/2014 02:04 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Oct 26, 12:57pm, Ray Andrews wrote: > } > It's read one character at a time and each character is then metafied > before being aggregated into the string buffer. I see, so the raw string never exists. I'd never contemplate doing it that way, but I suppose there's a reason for it. > Partly this is from separating ZLE into a module years after the shell > was first written. It's designed so that somebody else could write and > plug in a different line editor module, but no one got that ambitious. I remember reading about that. It would seem to me that ZLE is profoundly part of the shell, so that's a bit wierd, but ... > Are you sure that you're actually executing the correct binary when you > are running interactively? Maybe a startup file is "exec"-ing another > path? What happens if you start zsh with the -v option? Right again Bart. My last Debian upgrade seems to have reset my /etc/alternative/zsh* links back to /bin/zsh5, which is the normal thing with Debian. So I've been flogging the wrong horse ;-) So now I see the command there. What is this 'bangchar' you mention?