Re: confusing passage in zshexpn(1)

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Dec 12,  1:21am, Frank Terbeck wrote:
[...]
> } But the manual suggests that this should work.
> 
> People are WAY too "suggestible."
> 
> Not every fragment that appears as part of a sentence is desgined to be
> usable as a literal stand-alone example! [...]

Yes, I agree. People should not take single sentences from the manual
out of context.

> } How could this be included in the manual?
> 
> As it happens, this fragment DOES work if you setopt NO_BARE_GLOB_QUAL.
> That you need to use NO_BARE_GLOB_QUAL to avoid having trailing parens
> interpreted as glob qualifiers is documented in several other places.
> It's wildly impractical to document every possible interaction of the
> dozens of tangentially related options at every example.
[...]

ACK.
Apparently I should have thought a little more thoroughly before
posting. Sorry.

Regards, Frank

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