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Re: PATH handling broken in zsh 3.1.4

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From: Stucki <stucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATH handling broken in zsh 3.1.4
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:37:07 +0200
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199808041520.QAA25207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Zefram on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 04:20:00PM +0100
References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980804161859.8775k-100000@petzval> <199808041520.QAA25207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Quoting Zefram (zefram@xxxxxxxxx):
> >'zsh' ignores the trailing colon, and even drops colons when using
> >'vared PATH' on a Path containig empty fields. Like:
> >'export PATH=bla::bla'; vared path
> 
> vared on an array variable is a lossy process.  Try "vared PATH" instead.

OK, that works as supposed, but the 'csh'(ells) do 'really' imply
(meaning create) the dot, so you can work with it!
Shouldn't 'zsh' do the same in 'path' then ? I'd prefer to have
the same behavior!

Stucki

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