From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Jacob Menke <linux.dev25@gmail.com>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in Functions/Misc/regexp-replace
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:43:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Zi5Huei1goPTo4LxkWUZH+nzq6VTQfpHO-4Mf5-pmWrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210430065123.zjq2mpanmtbkkgfl@chazelas.org>
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:51 PM Stephane Chazelas
<stephane@chazelas.org> wrote:
>
> One might argue there's a problem with the (q) parameter
> expansion flag, it escapes leading =s but not the =s that follow
> : even though they're special there in assignments.
Arguably (q) should either quote all =s or none of them. It has no
idea what appears outside the parameter reference, that is, there's no
reason for it to treat a leading = as being the start of a word in the
surrounding context (or to believe the context is assignment). I
can't think of any situation where I've depended upon the
quotes-leading-equal behavior.
On the other hand the check for a leading equal means that (q-) would
work here (and is frequently better than just (q) for other reasons).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-30 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 23:53 Jacob Menke
2021-04-30 0:40 ` Matthew Martin
2021-04-30 5:56 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 6:51 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 8:17 ` tilde expansion after quoted : in assignments Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 17:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-30 20:13 ` Bug in Functions/Misc/regexp-replace Jacob Menke
2021-04-30 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-30 20:43 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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