From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2014 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1999 12:12:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jun 1999 12:12:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 16582 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 1999 12:12:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6759 Received: (qmail 16572 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1999 12:12:00 -0000 Message-Id: <9906211143.AA29441@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: PATCH: _subscript, Re: pws-23 In-Reply-To: ""Kiddle, Oliver""'s message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:52:37 DFT." <4FBF540FF16FD1119D9600A0C94B2B51F29E95@napier.logica.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:43:19 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson "Kiddle, Oliver" wrote: > _subscript in pws-23 seems to have been slightly damaged, probably due to > word wrapping somewhere. I've received this one with the first hunk wrapped, too. It's probably your end, since I've haven't noticed it when Sven and others having been flinging patches about with abandon. > I use print -D to print > the value of the array. This is rather useful with things like path where > things get compacted to something like ~/bin. I wish there was a way of getting things like this done without forking, roughly the way TCL does. > BTW, the _hosts change which I sent last Friday (and which isn't in pws-23) > doesn't work with my hosts file at home so I'll send a replacement later in > the week. I must have forgotten about that. But we probably need more sophisticated ways of generating host names from all sorts of different sources. /etc/hosts isn't all that well used any more. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy