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Re: Mailpath notification message

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list), Rusty Hoover <rusty@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mailpath notification message
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:35:22 +0200
In-reply-to: "Rusty Hoover"'s message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:37:29 MET." <199610240437.AAA06564@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Rusty Hoover wrote:
> Shouldn't this line:
> 
> 	export MAILPATH="~/.mailspool/rusty:~/Mail/z?Zsh mail."
> 
> 			in my .zshenv give me, whenever i return to my
> command-line prompt, the message: "Zsh mail." ?
> 
> It doesn't. What am i doing wrong? Do i need spaces around the question
> mark?

The mistake is that the ~'s are quoted, so don't expand to your home
directory: try `echo ~ "~"' and you will see what I mean.  You need
something like:

export MAILPATH=~/.mailspool/rusty:~/Mail/z'?Zsh mail.'

(zsh does know about assignments and colons when expanding ~'s).  This
is partly my fault:  I had something in the FAQ when the shell was
rationalised to quote tildes in this sort of place, but deleted it
when I thought it was no longer necessary.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>       Tel: +49 33762 77366
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/       Fax: +49 33762 77413
Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen
DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Mailpath notification message
  - From: Duncan Sargeant

References:
- Mailpath notification message
  - From: Rusty Hoover

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