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Re: PATCH: glob qualifier to prepend a word

The zshexpn section is a bit messed up. I see this:

*P**string*.’(

I assume it is supposed to look like:

*P**string*

Michael Hwang

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> So my theory on why this can be done after sorting but e can't is that
>> e can remove matches, which is done before sorting. Is that correct?
>
> "e" can play around with matches how it likes, up to and including doing
> arbitrary private forms of globbing of its own, so sorting needs to come
> after, yes.  I should have said so explicitly.
>
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