Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month

Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month

[Phil Pennock]

Okay, I've caught up on everything and not seen anything on this, so...

Typing away merrily, Peter Stephenson produced the immortal words:
> 3.22: How do I get a variable's value to be evaluated as another variable?
> 
>   The problem is that you have a variable $E containing the string
>   `EDITOR', and a variable $EDITOR containing the string `emacs',
>   or something such.  How do you get from $E to emacs in one easy
>   stage?
> 
>   There is no standard single-stage way of doing this.  However, there
>   is a zsh idiom (available in all versions of zsh since 5.0) for this:


zsh 5.0 already?  I wasn't busy _that_ long.
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Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month

[Geoff Wing]

Phil Pennock <comet@fysh.org> typed:
:Okay, I've caught up on everything and not seen anything on this, so...
:Typing away merrily, Peter Stephenson produced the immortal words:
:> 3.22: How do I get a variable's value to be evaluated as another variable?
:>   There is no standard single-stage way of doing this.  However, there
:>   is a zsh idiom (available in all versions of zsh since 5.0) for this:
:zsh 5.0 already?  I wasn't busy _that_ long.

You mean, you missed the big discussion that we're emulating Solaris 
versioning :-)
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