From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:43:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] completion: make compatible with zsh
Message-ID: <AANLkTinoPRPqxPrzNHF5J595r_Oedy=LSPZNYdMhB+OD@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100814212507.GD2372@burratino>

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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Lodato wrote:
>
>> ${var:2}
>>     Zsh uses $var[3,-1] to trim the first two characters.  There is no
>>     way to write cross-shell code to accomplish this, so we must wrap
>>     this in a check for zsh.
>
> Maybe
>
>        ${var#??}

Good idea.  I'll include this in the next version of the patch.