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Re: completion features

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: completion features
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:55:20 +0100 (MET)
In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:02:19 +0100
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Peter Stephenson wrote:

>  (By the way, is
> ${#:-$PREFIX$SUFFIX} supposed to work, because it doesn't, although
> "${#${:-$PREFIX$SUFFIX}}" does.)

The code explicitly tests:

	} else if ((*s == '#' || *s == Pound) &&
		   (iident(s[1])
		    || s[1] == '*' || s[1] == Star || s[1] == '@'
		    || (isstring(s[1]) && (s[2] == Inbrace || s[2] == Inpar))))

Also, I find the difference between ${#${:-...}} and "${#${:-...}}"
slightly irritating (again) -- the first one always yields `1' because 
the inner ${...} is taken as an array with one element.

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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