From: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5: doc fix, was re: Case-insensitive globbing
Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:43:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vbpvb1x7g8.fsf@snake.isode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 12:01:26 +0100"
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> writes:
> "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> > Hm. I don't think grouping needs to work inside the command word, but
> > there should not be an implicit word break before the paren:
> >
> > zagzig<7> echo(config.|stamp-)h
> > config.h stamp-h
> >
> > Rather I'd expect to see some sort of parse error, or command-not-found.
>
> I suppose it's for people to be able to do things like `if(test...)'
> without typing all those time-consuming spaces.
Is this a feature? I don't like it, if it is.
Suppose I have a few commands like foo_baa, or foo.baa, but I can
never remember what case the baa is supposed to be.
I think it would be cool to be able to use case insensitive globbing
even on the command word. It certainly feels ugly to have a special
case like this.
I can see why you might want special cases for builtin bits of syntax
like if, while, etc., I suppose (just to avoid all that time-wasting
whitespace), but it still feels ugly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-06 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-31 10:14 PATCH: 3.1.5 - (Sven) " Bart Schaefer
1998-11-02 9:21 ` Zefram
1998-11-02 17:07 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-11-02 17:45 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-11-02 18:06 ` Zefram
1998-11-03 8:12 ` Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-03 12:22 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-11-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-11-03 15:01 ` Zefram
1998-11-03 15:27 ` Bruce Stephens
[not found] ` <MLIST_vbn269dkyw.fsf@snake.isode.com>
1998-11-03 18:09 ` Jarkko Hietaniemi
1998-11-03 18:54 ` Zefram
1998-11-03 19:14 ` Jarkko Hietaniemi
1998-11-03 19:27 ` Zefram
1998-11-03 19:36 ` Jarkko Hietaniemi
1998-11-04 18:48 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-05 9:26 ` PATCH: 3.1.5: Case-insensitive globbing (2) Peter Stephenson
1998-11-05 18:15 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-06 11:01 ` PATCH: 3.1.5: doc fix, was re: Case-insensitive globbing Peter Stephenson
1998-11-06 13:43 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1998-11-06 9:24 ` Approximate matching Bart Schaefer
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