Re: /non/existant/path(:h)

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 27,  3:34pm, Frank Terbeck wrote:
} Subject: Re: /non/existant/path(:h)
}
} Sebastian Stark <seb-zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
} > (btw. I also find it strange that the explanation for :h et al. needs to 
} > be looked up in the HISTORY EXPANSION section of the manpage...)
} 
} That is probably because that is where these modifiers come from. The
} idea is borrowed from tcsh, if I'm not mistaken.

I don't recall exactly where Paul first encountered it, but that feature
(as a history modifier) dates all the way back to the original csh.  Zsh
introduced the idea of using it as a glob qualifier.