Re: is text file?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29,  9:28pm, TGAPE! wrote:
} Subject: Re: is text file?
}
} everything can be done as a perl one-liner.  This can be translated into
} a zsh command line.  There's an emacs minor editting mode which already
} does it, however.

An emacs mode that does what?  Everything as a perl one-liner?  Translation
of perl into zsh?  Or grepping only in text files?  (Do you mean igrep?)

} (well, everything except testing links, rather than what they point to.
} Or am I missing something?  Please tell me I am

The `-' qualifier makes all additional qualifiers follow symlinks, e.g.:

% print -rc *(-T)

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