* PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-6 + $foo:q : doc
@ 1999-02-05 13:34 Peter Stephenson
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 1999-02-05 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
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