Re: Manpage improvement

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>]

> x11amp "${(@f)$(locate Argentina|grep .mp3)}"
>
> I hope this might qualify as an example to spice up future zsh
> manpages.

Here's a change to the manual source which should make this sort of
thing a little clearer.  (You only need the (@) flag with array words, not
when splitting a single value into words.)

*** Doc/Zsh/expn.yo.par	Thu Jul  9 12:09:43 1998
--- Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	Mon Sep 28 15:53:57 1998
***************
*** 301,308 ****
  If a tt(${)...tt(}) type parameter expression or a tt($LPAR())...tt(RPAR())
  type command
  substitution is used in place of var(name) above, it is substituted first
! and the result is used as it were the value of var(name).
  
  If the opening brace is directly followed by an opening parenthesis,
  the string up to the matching closing parenthesis will be taken as a
  list of flags.  Where arguments are valid, any character, or the
--- 301,313 ----
  If a tt(${)...tt(}) type parameter expression or a tt($LPAR())...tt(RPAR())
  type command
  substitution is used in place of var(name) above, it is substituted first
! and the result is used as it were the value of var(name).  Thus it is
! possible to perform nested operations:  tt(${${foo#head}%tail})
! prints the variables tt($foo) after deleting both the head and tail from
! the value.  The form with tt($LPAR())...tt(RPAR()) is often useful in
! combination with the flags described next; see the example below.
  
+ subsect(Flags)
  If the opening brace is directly followed by an opening parenthesis,
  the string up to the matching closing parenthesis will be taken as a
  list of flags.  Where arguments are valid, any character, or the
***************
*** 414,419 ****
--- 419,435 ----
  Include the length of the match in the result.
  )
  enditem()
+ subsect(Example)
+ The flag tt(f) is useful to split a double-quoted substitution line by
+ line.  For example,
+ 
+ nofill(var(cmd) tt("${)tt(LPAR()f)tt(RPAR()$)tt(LPAR()<)var(file)tt(RPAR()}"))
+ 
+ will substitue the contents of var(file) divided so that one line is
+ supplied per argument to var(cmd).  Compare this with the effect of
+ tt($)tt(LPAR()<)var(file)tt(RPAR()) alone, which divides the file
+ up by words, or the same inside double quotes, where the entire
+ contents of the file are passed as a single argument.
  texinode(Command Substitution)(Arithmetic Expansion)(Parameter Expansion)(Expansion)
  sect(Command Substitution)
  cindex(command substitution)

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