Re: test patches

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net> writes:

> This version of zsh now seems to run debian startup/shutdown scripts
> without problems, but I haven't tried any dpkg runs yet.  Unfortunately
> some Linux programs assume that /bin/sh has brace expansion so I'm thinking
> about making ignorebraces off by default even in sh mode.  bash, ksh93 and
> pdksh all do brace expansion by default.  The problem is that in zsh if
> ignorebraces is not set, commands like `{foo' or `foo bar}' do not
> work.

Would it be too much work (or too much braindamage, for that matter),
to do what bash does in cases of `{foo' and `foo bar}' -- i.e. pretend
the expansion is not there.

bash$ {foo
bash: {foo: command not found
bash$ foo bar}
bash: foo: command not found

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