From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2311 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2014 20:43:47 -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: 33685 Received: (qmail 18162 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2014 20:43:46 -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=Qyz5EhwEgno+0ygJy6JQjg==:117 a=Qyz5EhwEgno+0ygJy6JQjg==:17 a=G8GL833Es-AA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=b9YzLYOvj4IWg8t2X94A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <54627454.8040805@eastlink.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:40:52 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: 'whence' question References: <545A6D66.3080500@eastlink.ca> <1458.1415209763@thecus.kiddle.eu> <20141105180035.22f6e9b1@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <141105204330.ZM2973@torch.brasslantern.com> <20141106211017.11b8848a@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <20141108204123.1fcc698e@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <141109105139.ZM27532@torch.brasslantern.com> <54625276.2070901@eastlink.ca> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 11/11/2014 11:33 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I'm not sure what you're hollering about. Ah. Not hollering, just distinguishing comment from output. I composed that outside of email. > Searching all forms has > nothing to do with whether the search is for a literal string (which > is the default) or for a pattern (which requires the -m option to be > explicitly stated). "All command forms" means aliases, reserved > words, and functions, and your example found those aliases. All answered in last post Bart, thanks. > > REMOVE '-v' AND ALIASES 'BECOME' FILES! :( > Well, no, they don't become files, the become whatever is on the > right-hand-side of the alias. Of course. I just meant that one could easily get confused. > It's not the fault of "whence" that you don't find this to be as > useful as the -v output. Sure, I mentioned that myself, it isn't broken, if one wants clarity, use '-v'. That's just a vague 'editorial' sort of remark, that perhaps the default behavior might have been the more explicit output. It's subjective. I guess that culturally, zsh builds power up from components rather than trying to be fancy by default. That's cool. All issues answered, as usual. Sorry again for being dense.