Re: triviality with prompts

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2014 08:43 AM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> well, $'' is apparently different syntax from '', and it's dangerous 
> to assume that two different syntaxes have the same semantics. 
*Another* gotcha yet again?  Yes, making assumptions is dangerous, but 
not doing anything for fear of the next gotcha is not an option.  I 
guess one just walks through the mine-field and when things blow up, you 
know you've found a mine.  It's only software, so no one dies.  Trial 
and error.

> YMMV, but when i'm working on a script, the biggest slice of the time 
> spent with the various zsh* man pages is in zshmisc(1) and zshexpn(1). 
> you might also get some new insight from giving them a read or two. 
Thanks.  So many scrolls!