Re: [Bug?] zsh -n fails on dynamically named directory syntax

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 18 June 2021 at 08:48 Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Given
> * a script "foo.zsh" containing
>     source bar.zsh
>     print ~[foo]
> * a script "bar.zsh" that sets up dynamically named dirs, but which
> has _not_ been sourced in the current shell
> 
> When
> * I do `zsh -n foo.zsh`
> 
> Then
> * Command fails with
>     foo.zsh:2: no directory expansion: ~[foo]
> 
> Expected behavior:
> * I would expect `zsh -n foo.zsh` to succeed here, since the syntax in
> foo.zsh is entirely valid.

The point being that zsh -n is just syntax checking.

pws

diff --git a/Src/subst.c b/Src/subst.c
index 9928be0e9..87a56c3c6 100644
--- a/Src/subst.c
+++ b/Src/subst.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ filesubstr(char **namptr, int assign)
                *namptr = dyncat(res, ptr2+1);
                return 1;
            }
-           if (isset(NOMATCH))
+           if (isset(NOMATCH) && isset(EXECOPT))
                zerr("no directory expansion: ~[%s]", tmp);
            return 0;
        } else if (!inblank(str[1]) && isend(*ptr) &&