From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Message-Id: <9902051334.AA63281@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 From: Peter Stephenson X-Mailing-List: 5284 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 Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy