RE: revised patch: zshmisc(1) clarify non-successful exit statuses

[<zeurkous@xxxxxxxx>]

Haai,

"Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> zeurkous@xxxxxxxx wrote on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:18 +00:00:
>> # The copied use of startsitem() was suggested on the same mailing list.
>> # Me hopes me did it right.
>
> Not quite; sitem()() takes two arguments. See, for instance,
> http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#index-zmv
> and Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo:4573.

Oops, sorry. Could you fix that, or do you want me to do another
revision...?

>> # Note that the "operating system-dependent" part is made more
>> # complicated by zsh' habit of de-capitalizing the initial character of
>> # the string returned by strerror(3).
>
> I wouldn't mind losing that habit, actually. It's not zsh's business to
> copyedit a library message, especially when that breaks some use-cases
> (case-sensitive grepping/skimming) and is downright wrong in some cases
> (e.g., in German <https://bugs.debian.org/419233>, or if the error
> message happens to start with word that changes meaning when
> decapitalized, such as "Perl" or "English").

Agreed, let's lose it :)

>
> #419233 has a patch which should still work.
>
>> # Hope this is more useful (it is to me),
>> #
>> # --zeurkous, Fri Apr 23 12:09:47 UTC 2021.
>> #
>> --- Doc/Zsh/..v/5.8/exec.yo Mon Dec 4 14:09:35 2017
>> +++ Doc/Zsh/exec.yo Fri Apr 23 12:02:30 2021
>> @@ -14,10 +14,22 @@
>
> Read the new text and don't have any comments. It's an improvement,
> even if a mention of AUTO_CD hasn't been added.

Good to hear.

> Anyone else wants
> to review?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel

NP,
          --zeurkous.

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