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From: Aryn Starr <whereislelouch@icloud.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Macros created via global aliases don't work
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:24:36 +0430	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E74A664-7781-4FDC-B640-FDFDCDB2A104@icloud.com> (raw)

Hi! I am trying to create a macro in zsh using global aliases:

```
alias -g MAGIC=')"'
function m_doc() {
    print -r -- "! { [[ ${(q+)1} == '-h' ]] || [[ ${(q+)1} == '--help' ]] } || {
        print -r -- \"Help for $2:
$@[3,-1]\” ; return 0 }"
}
alias mdoc='eval "$(m_doc "$*" "$0" '

## Testing it

mdoc_test() {
    mdoc Usage: Some documentation here. MAGIC
    echo “You shouldn’t see this if using the help flags"
}

## Running this:
#$ mdoc_test -h
#mdoc_test:1: parse error near `)'
#mdoc_test:1: parse error in command substitution

mdoc_test2() {
    eval "$(m_doc "$*" "$0" Usage: Some documentation here.)"
    ec "$*"
}
## Running this:
#$ mdoc_test2 -h                                                                                                  1
#Help for mdoc_test2:
#Usage: Some documentation here.

mdoc_test3() {
    eval "$(m_doc "$*" "$0" Usage: Some documentation here. MAGIC
    ec "$*"
}
## Running this:
#$ mdoc_test3 -h
#mdoc_test3:1: parse error near `)'
#mdoc_test3:1: parse error in command substitution

```

It seems to me that this is a bug?

             reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-12  8:54 Aryn Starr [this message]
2019-08-13  0:31 ` Bart Schaefer

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