Re: first adventures

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/26/2014 02:04 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Oct 26, 12:57pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> It's read one character at a time and each character is then metafied
> before being aggregated into the string buffer.
I see, so the raw string never exists.  I'd never contemplate doing it 
that way, but
I suppose there's a reason for it.
> Partly this is from separating ZLE into a module years after the shell
> was first written.  It's designed so that somebody else could write and
> plug in a different line editor module, but no one got that ambitious.
I remember reading about that. It would seem to me that ZLE is 
profoundly part of the
shell, so that's a bit wierd, but ...
> Are you sure that you're actually executing the correct binary when you
> are running interactively?  Maybe a startup file is "exec"-ing another
> path?  What happens if you start zsh with the -v option?
Right again Bart.  My last Debian upgrade seems to have reset my 
/etc/alternative/zsh*
links back to /bin/zsh5, which is the normal thing with Debian.  So I've 
been flogging the
wrong horse ;-)

So now I see the command there. What is this 'bangchar' you mention?