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[PATCH 2/2] zstyle docs: Unoverload a placeholder variable name.
Use 'pattern' to refer to things matched against contexts and 'metapattern'
to refer to things matched against patterns.
---
Doc/Zsh/mod_zutil.yo | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/mod_zutil.yo b/Doc/Zsh/mod_zutil.yo
index 5363037ab..24aebdfaf 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/mod_zutil.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/mod_zutil.yo
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The tt(zsh/zutil) module only adds some builtins:
startitem()
findex(zstyle)
-xitem(tt(zstyle) [ tt(-L) [ var(pattern) [ var(style) ] ] ])
+xitem(tt(zstyle) [ tt(-L) [ var(metapattern) [ var(style) ] ] ])
xitem(tt(zstyle) [ tt(-e) | tt(-) | tt(-)tt(-) ] var(pattern) var(style) var(string) ...)
xitem(tt(zstyle -d) [ var(pattern) [ var(style) ... ] ])
xitem(tt(zstyle -g) var(name) [ var(pattern) [ var(style) ] ])
@@ -52,14 +52,15 @@ em(Usage)
The forms that operate on patterns are the following.
startitem()
-item(tt(zstyle) [ tt(-L) [ var(pattern) [ var(style) ] ] ])(
+item(tt(zstyle) [ tt(-L) [ var(metapattern) [ var(style) ] ] ])(
Without arguments, lists style definitions. Styles
are shown in alphabetic order and patterns are shown in the order
tt(zstyle) will test them.
If the tt(-L) option is given, listing is done in the form of calls to
-tt(zstyle). The optional first argument is a pattern which will be matched
-against the string supplied as the pattern for the context; note that
+tt(zstyle). The optional first argument, var(metapattern), is a pattern which
+will be matched against the string supplied as var(pattern) when the style was
+defined. Note:
this means, for example, `tt(zstyle -L ":completion:*")' will
match any supplied pattern beginning `tt(:completion:)', not
just tt(":completion:*"): use tt(':completion:\*') to match that.
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