From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Use of qualifiers without glob pattern?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:54:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <960626085405.ZM2495@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> "Re: Use of qualifiers without glob pattern?" (Jun 26, 4:52pm)
On Jun 26, 4:52pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: Use of qualifiers without glob pattern?
}
} > } > the problem is, $i(:r) gives the same as $i!!!
} >
} > Gosh, guys, this is pretty basic stuff to have suddenly stop working.
}
} The (:...) modifiers stopped working only if the argument had no wildcards
} so *(:r) always worked. And foo.bar(:r) works only since about a year.
Ah.
zagzig<1> i=foo.bar
zagzig<2> echo $i:r $i(:r)
foo foo.bar
Hmm.
zagzig<3> echo ${i(:r)}
zsh: closing brace expected
Oh, well.
} > This is why I get nervous every time a big patch like the metafication
} > stuff gets put in.
}
} That particular bug is related to the execcmd reorganization
Right, I was using metafication for example only.
} to allow
} things like foo=exec ; $foo bar work which is probably more basic than
} the modifiers.
I agree (now) that in this case the problem wasn't serious; I thought
the parameter-substitution modifiers were broken as well.
} In beta21 there was no really serious problems. I'm going to release
} beta22 within a couple of days. It will contain a partial solution of the
} signal reentrancy problem by saving and resoring some variables which fixes
} the most serious problems.
Sounds worthwhile.
} If no problems reported within a few days
} of that release I'll announce this beta in some newsgroups as a 3.0
} pre-release.
Has this one, reported a few days ago by someone else, been fixed?
zagzig<9> echo "foo\
> $bar"
foo$bar
That seems like an important thing to get right.
} Maybe beta22 is not a good name for that. It may be better
} to call it to zsh-2.99.0 as the next stable release will be zsh-3.0.0.
Why not 3.0-prerelease, or something like that?
} I know that there were many changes since beta16, more than I wanted. RC
} announced a feature freeze a year ago. New features were introduced in
} beta17 but these new features were already well tested as these were
} present in my non-official releases for more than a year. Sine beta17
} there were many conceptual changes to fix long-standing bugs and to improve
} sh compatibility.
Yes; let me reiterate that I'm happy with all of this, I was just
wondering about how much longer it was going to continue.
} Also several debug tests were added and these are enabled by default.
} These debug messages might give a feeling that recent betas are more buggy
} than older ones but most of these bugs were always there.
I understand about that. I based my impression on the number of bug
reports that crossed the list following release of beta20.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-26 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-12 19:03 Buffered stderr on Linux Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-12 19:24 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-03-12 20:26 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-12 23:17 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-13 0:16 ` Steven L Baur
[not found] ` <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
1996-03-16 18:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-04-10 21:41 ` History file locking? Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 22:16 ` Daniel Dignam
1996-06-26 13:51 ` Use of qualifiers without glob pattern? Bart Schaefer
1996-06-26 14:01 ` Regression tests Bas V. de Bakker
1996-06-26 14:52 ` Use of qualifiers without glob pattern? Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-26 15:54 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1996-06-27 1:03 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 16:55 ` Parameter expansion bug? Bart Schaefer
1996-10-31 16:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-31 17:04 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 17:47 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-13 3:37 ` fifo configure check Bart Schaefer
1996-12-13 8:58 ` fifo configure check (seems to work here: Solaris 2.4) C. v. Stuckrad
1996-12-13 14:44 ` fifo configure check Zefram
1996-12-13 17:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
[not found] ` <wayne@clari.net>
1997-01-31 22:01 ` history-search-backward Bart Schaefer
1996-04-10 10:31 History file locking? Russell Senior
1996-04-10 12:12 ` Zefram
1996-04-10 12:41 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-04-10 12:50 ` Zefram
1996-04-10 21:21 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
[not found] ` <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-04-10 16:26 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 17:08 ` Anthony Heading
[not found] ` <aheading@jpmorgan.com>
1996-04-10 17:12 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 18:03 ` Anthony Heading
1996-06-05 21:25 ` Builtin append() and prepend() to PATH, CDPATH, etc Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
1996-06-10 19:22 ` Clinton Bunch
1996-06-10 19:54 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-06-10 20:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-06-10 20:58 ` Clinton Bunch
1996-06-24 18:26 ` BUG: useheap in doexpandhist() Barton E. Schaefer
1996-06-24 19:11 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-24 21:20 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-06-25 0:01 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-25 0:22 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-07-23 20:01 ` Bug in case stmt with '(' Morris M. Siegel
1996-07-23 21:55 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-24 8:29 ` Zefram
1996-07-24 9:52 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-07-24 11:10 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-24 14:16 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-02 17:59 Builtin append() and prepend() to PATH, CDPATH, etc Fung-Chai Lim
1996-06-02 21:26 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
[not found] ` <1062.199606041027@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-06-22 20:12 BUG: useheap in doexpandhist() Bart Schaefer
[not found] <17651.199607222123@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-07-23 14:08 ` Bug in case stmt with '(' Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-23 16:25 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-10-31 14:41 Parameter expansion bug? Anthony Heading
1996-10-31 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-31 16:12 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 20:49 ` Anthony Heading
1996-12-13 2:30 fifo configure check Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-01-31 10:47 history-search-backward Peter Stephenson
1997-01-31 12:16 ` history-search-backward Zefram
1997-01-31 12:42 ` history-search-backward Peter Stephenson
1997-01-31 15:02 ` history-search-backward Bart Schaefer
1997-01-31 15:23 ` history-search-backward Vinnie Shelton
1997-01-31 19:02 ` history-search-backward Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-01-31 19:13 ` history-search-backward Wayne Davison
2001-04-27 19:54 comptest* failed to load module: zsh/termcap Peter Whaite
2001-04-28 6:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-28 8:55 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-30 15:44 ` Peter Whaite
2001-04-30 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 16:47 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-30 17:16 ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 18:54 ` Peter Whaite
2001-04-30 19:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 15:32 ` Peter Whaite
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