From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 21:00:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3QzmTj_kWZ+L7MDCnW+=Bmfw6UejROKkWoRjNyWyaLW+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160409192218.3f1d6710@ntlworld.com>
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:18:30 -0700
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 7, 9:10pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> }
>> } It looks like it has to be Y- (or something else)
>>
>> I considered suggesting (Y/) for "short-circuit directories".
>
> That might be a good idea.
The only argument against this syntax (and I'm not saying it's a
strong argument) is that you have to choose between being able to
shortcircuit a subtree, or excluding a particular match that happens
to be a directory (while still including children of that directory).
Unless like before this only applies to the final ~ pattern in the,
er, pattern?
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-09 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 18:36 Peter Stephenson
2016-03-21 20:39 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-03-21 22:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-03-22 9:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-22 11:46 ` Jesper Nygårds
2016-03-23 9:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-03-26 15:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-07 20:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-08 3:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-09 18:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-09 19:00 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2016-04-09 19:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-10 5:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-10 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson
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