From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id NAA00945 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:02:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA14804; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:58:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:58:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <960718195917.ZM897@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:59:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi "Re: more dependencies on emulation" (Jul 19, 3:34am) References: <199607190134.DAA05511@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Reply-To: schaefer@nbn.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.702 02jul96) To: Zoltan Hidvegi Subject: Re: more dependencies on emulation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"jucaC2.0.Cd3.2dlxn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1708 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Jul 19, 3:34am, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: > Subject: Re: more dependencies on emulation > > In zsh's ksh emulation mode with this patch applied, ~$USER works, but > > Do you mean that it gives the home directory of $USER? It did not do that > before the patch. Right; I meant the patch is correct in that case, but wrong in the other case (unless IGNORE_BRACES is not set). > > ~{pfalstad,rc} fails unless IGNORE_BRACES is also unset. > > IGNORE_BRACES should probably be not set if zsh is invoked as ksh. I'll > change that. That's an OK solution too. > There is no standard for brace expansion and probably that's why shells are > differerent here. Yup. The only remaining question is, do we care about being able to do the Bash-equivalent case? I suspect not.