From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More stuff for Etc/FAQ
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:39:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5483396-535f-4b74-bd21-6568ce0a1e3d@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7Z=UYYy01fi=3BgphOcBgL1USZxv9Po4bxjF5-K_so8Pw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, at 5:37 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 12:47 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>>
>> > + mytt($(command)) removes trailing newlines from the output of mytt(command)
>> > + when substituting, whereas mytt(${ command }) and its variants do not.
>>
>> Hm, this diverges from the behavior of (m)ksh and (soon) bash:
>
> This was based on the discussion (and Sebastian's sample code) of how
> mksh ${|REPLY=$'abc\n'} works. I thought it better to be consistent
> for all of these forms.
I'm inclined to agree, despite the inconsistency with $(...) and
the other shells. In zsh it will be easy to use something like
foo=${${ cmd }%$'\n'}
if desired, while in the other shells preserving trailing LFs is
still annoying.
> Defintely worth mentioning in the FAQ tho.
A quick aside in the manual might also be good.
--
vq
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2024-01-13 20:48 Bart Schaefer
2024-01-14 20:46 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-14 22:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-15 0:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
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