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Re: twiddle-number problem?

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Colin Holmes)
Subject: Re: twiddle-number problem?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:11:01 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9609251549.ZM12219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Colin Holmes" at Sep 25, 96 03:49:10 pm

>Can anyone explain how I can get tilde-user completion to
>handle usernames starting with numbers?  On SGIs, there's
>a default user called "4Dgifts" that contains nice source
>code examples and other goodies.

*sigh*

When I proposed using ~<number> instead of =<number> for the directory
stack, I assumed that no one would be perverse enough to have a
username start with a digit or punctuation character.  You'll have to
give the directory some other name; "fourd=/home/4Dgifts" would make
~fourd work.

-zefram

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- twiddle-number problem?
  - From: Colin Holmes

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