bug?!?

bug?!?

[Xander van Wiggen]

Howdy,

First of all: THANKS FOR ZSH!
However, I've encountered the following:

1. Your mailing list archive links are *pretty* dead :)
2. In zsh 3.0.2, NOBADPATTERN does not seem to work, at least not in 
   interactive mode. I do not know if this is a 'feature' or something obvious
   that I overlooked, but if I do "mdir a:*.txt" with BAD_PATTERN switched OFF,
   zsh tells me that it can't find a match in the current directory.
   This is not a problem caused by mdir, it happens with echo too:
   % setopt nobadpattern
   % echo foo*
   zsh: no matches found: foo*
   In bash this example simply prints "foo*" on the screen.  

Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,
xander

Re: bug?!?

[Geoff Wing]

On 4 Jun 1997 23:57:11 +1000, Xander van Wiggen wrote:
:First of all: THANKS FOR ZSH!
:However, I've encountered the following:
:2. In zsh 3.0.2, NOBADPATTERN does not seem to work, at least not in 
:   interactive mode. I do not know if this is a 'feature' or something obvious
:   that I overlooked, but if I do "mdir a:*.txt" with BAD_PATTERN switched OFF,
:   zsh tells me that it can't find a match in the current directory.
:   This is not a problem caused by mdir, it happens with echo too:
:   % setopt nobadpattern
:   % echo foo*
:   zsh: no matches found: foo*
:   In bash this example simply prints "foo*" on the screen.  

Neither of those were bad patterns.  Perhaps you want:  NO_NOMATCH
A bad pattern is something like
% echo [100-

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Re: bug?!?

[Zefram]

Xander van Wiggen wrote:
>   % setopt nobadpattern
>   % echo foo*
>   zsh: no matches found: foo*

Wrong option.  You want nonomatch.  nobadpattern is for patterns like `a['.

-zefram