From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:33:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D7AB4F13-4405-4368-8B01-465566AFCF5D@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010201773071544b-42b5de91-3fc9-411d-9f9c-ffb0f1a260e8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
> On Jan 23, 2021, at 1:11 PM, Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I use the `repeat` complex command with an arithmetic expression containing one of the following special characters:
>
> * = ^ ?
>
> I get an error message in the form "zsh: bad math expression: illegal character: \M-X". The "X" is replaced by one of G M F W (corresponding to the symbols above). This doesn't happen if I wrap the character in single or double quotes, or escape it with a backslash. It still happens with even the options `noglob`, `noequals`, `nomagicequalsubst` which I thought might be causing them to be misinterpreted.
>
> Why does this happen?
Could you provide an example?
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-23 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 18:11 Patrick Reader
2021-01-23 19:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
[not found] ` <0102017730be053e-9eccbdb4-1596-4ae7-8bee-5f2005229b83-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
2021-01-23 19:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-23 20:47 ` Bart Schaefer
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