From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:36:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <990920163607.ZM12885@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199909200843.KAA06289@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <199909201215.OAA07256@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
On Sep 20, 10:43am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
}
} > though it would be really useful if $param:q could emit quoting instead of
} > backslashes.
}
} I would be against this because its much less useful in cases where
} you stuff together string from multiple parameters.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, there.
With 7951 applied, compare:
print -R ${(q):-"$histchars $WORDCHARS $SPROMPT $TIMEFMT"}
print -R ${(qq):-"$histchars $WORDCHARS $SPROMPT $TIMEFMT"}
print -R ${(qqq):-"$histchars $WORDCHARS $SPROMPT $TIMEFMT"}
On Sep 20, 2:15pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: PATCH: was: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
}
} This does that. `${(qqq)foo}' looks a bit silly doesn't it?
The man who wrote
${(@)^${(@)${(@)${(@M)${(@ps:\n:j:\n:)${(@)${(@M)${(@f)$(${~words[1]} --help 2>&1)//\[--/
--}:#[ ]#-*}//,/
}}:#[ ]#--*}#*--}%%[, ]*}:#}
wants to talk about "looks a bit silly"?
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-20 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-20 8:43 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-20 12:15 ` PATCH: was: " Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-20 16:36 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-09-23 1:39 ` Tanaka Akira
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-23 14:07 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-23 10:28 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-23 14:12 ` Tanaka Akira
1999-09-23 15:12 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-25 2:53 ` Tanaka Akira
1999-09-23 9:13 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-23 13:57 ` Tanaka Akira
1999-09-21 7:15 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-20 12:57 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-19 22:57 Bart Schaefer
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