Re: PATH variable case-insensitive?

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:38:28 +0000
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...if you're expecting zsh run in the
> default fashion to be strictly POSIX-compatible, you're in for a *lot*
> of surprises.

We really ought to be upfront about this at the start of the manual (hi,
Manuel)... we say it's "not completely compatible" with ksh, but that's
a bit weaselly.  The Sourceforge page puts this a bit better.  We should
probably say something like...

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo b/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
index 5184928..f9aa700 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ texitop(The Z Shell Manual)
 texiifinfo(\
 This Info file documents Zsh, a freely available UNIX command interpreter
 (shell), which of the standard shells most closely resembles the Korn shell
-(ksh), although it is not completely compatible.
+(ksh), although it is not completely compatible.  Zsh is able to emulate
+POSIX shells, but its default mode is not POSIX compatible, either.
 
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