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Shell-word splitting (was: Re: Proposed _history completer)
- X-seq: zsh-workers 11050
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Shell-word splitting (was: Re: Proposed _history completer)
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:31:08 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Mon, 1 May 2000 05:48:39 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Apr 28, 9:20am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> }
> } Bart Schaefer wrote:
> }
> } > I think having a way to chop a string into shell words -- something like
> } > what you did for copy-prev-shell-word -- would be more effective.
> }
> } [...] some parameter flag, most likely. Hm, s and S are taken,
> } so are c and C. We could use `=' but that would probably be too
> } irritating.
>
> Hrm. How would a parameter flag do this on an array? Parse each word
> separately?
I wrote this at the weekend (quite simple) and, yes, it just split the
array's elements separately and then returned an array with all words
from all elements.
> Hrm, again; maybe the way to do this is with a modifier rather than a
> flag. :S is available, and it'd be kinda fun to be able to apply this
> to history as well as to parameters. Or maybe it wouldn't ...
I'm withholding the patch I have because of this. I'll check how
difficult this is to implement, but I guess it's equally simple.
Bye
Sven
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