Re: Vim syntax file for zsh

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx> [Dec 11, 2004 17:30]:
> > 	% echo hi[
> > 	zsh: bad pattern: hi[
> > 	% [ -n "$1" ]
> > 	%
> > 
> > Quoting the first makes sense if you want to echo the string "hi[".
> > Quoting the [ in [ -n "$1" ] makes no sense at all.
> > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> Yes, you're right, I had not made the test myself as I expected
> it to work the same as in any other shell.

> echo foo[

> works OK in every shell but zsh.

	% setopt nobadpattern
	% echo hi[
	hi[

> If you've got a command named foo[, though, 

> foo[ bar

> doesn't work with ksh or bash (because, they take it as the
> start of an array subscript assignment). It's OK with pdksh,
> though.

Yeah, [ is heavily overloaded ;-),
	nikolai

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