Use of qualifiers without glob pattern?

[Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>]

hi, all!

the question to zsh 2.6-beta21.

Man page states, that it is possible to use history modifiers for *any*
file; to be precise: "The name of any existing file can be followed by a
modifier of the form (:..) even if no filename generation is performed".

I have tried it in the followin statement:

for i in **/*.org
do
  diff -u $i $i(:r)
done

the problem is, $i(:r) gives the same as $i!!! That is a.c.org(:r) ->
a.c.org. If I make e.g. *.c.org(:r) I correctly get .org suffix stripped.

Is it correct? I have a feeling, that it worked in some earlier version of
zsh.

thanks in advance

PS please, Cc to me as I am not member of this list. 

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