From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Idle musing about (naming of) CLOBBER_EMPTY
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:57:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aG1Fm8NOy74z+=2XWpFrQBL5dq6Ka_iLCAKAMAAgo5qQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a3d3287-0f3e-4876-8089-ca22b92cec45@www.fastmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Bart Schaefer wrote on Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:47 +00:00:
> > Doesn't that make it sound like NOCLOBBER_EMPTY should mean that only
> > empty files are preserved?
>
> Could call it BUT_DO_CLOBBER_EMPTY, to allow «setopt noclobber butdoclobberempty».
Ha! Except that
setopt noclobber nobutdoclobberempty
still sounds wrong. :-)
I was thinking EMPTY_CLOBBER, if anything. But like I said, idle musing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-10 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-09 17:47 Bart Schaefer
2020-06-09 22:43 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-10 0:57 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2020-06-10 13:56 ` Daniel Shahaf
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