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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-6 + $foo:q : doc
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:34:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9902051334.AA63281@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)

Since I'm about to produce pws-7, here is some documentation for the
fact that :q with a parameter now does something.

--- Doc/Zsh/expn.yo.q	Wed Feb  3 12:14:49 1999
+++ Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	Fri Feb  5 14:31:41 1999
@@ -161,8 +161,10 @@
 expansion.
 )
 item(tt(q))(
-Quote the substituted words, escaping further substitutions.  Only
-works with history expansion.
+Quote the substituted words, escaping further substitutions.  Works
+with history expansion and parameter expansion, though in the second
+case it is only useful if the resulting text is to be re-evaluated
+such as by tt(eval).
 )
 item(tt(x))(
 Like tt(q), but break into words at each blank.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy


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