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Re: [PATCH 1/3] completion: be nicer with zsh

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2012, 10:35 UTC
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Let's avoid it. This has the advantage that the code is now actually
>> understandable (at least to me), while before it looked like voodoo.
>
> I am somewhat hesitant to accept a patch to shell scripts on the basis
> that the patch author does not understand the existing constructs that
> are standard parts of shell idioms.

I have been writing shell scripts for years[1], and I have *never* had an encounter with ':'. vim's sh syntax doesn't seem to be prepared for it, and zsh's sh emulation has problems only when ':' is involved, so I still think ':' is quite obscure.

Plus, I haven't seen ${foo:=bar} that often.

In any case, there's no need for ad hominem arguments; there is a problem when using zsh, that's a fact.

[1] https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/felipec/positions/total
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Felipe Contreras
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Message 6 of 28 in “completion: trivial cleanups”
  1. 0/3 completion: trivial cleanupsFelipe Contreras, Jan 29, 2012
  2. 1/3 completion: be nicer with zshFelipe Contreras, Jan 29, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2012
  5. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  6. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2012
  8. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  9. 2/3 completion: remove old codeFelipe Contreras, Jan 29, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederJan 30, 2012
  11. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  12. Jonathan NiederJan 30, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2012
  14. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  15. Frans KlaverJan 30, 2012
  16. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  17. Frans KlaverJan 30, 2012
  18. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  19. Jonathan NiederJan 30, 2012
  20. 3/3 completion: remove unused codeFelipe Contreras, Jan 29, 2012
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 30, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederJan 30, 2012
  23. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  24. Thomas RastJan 30, 2012
  25. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2012
  26. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012
  27. Thomas RastJan 30, 2012
  28. Felipe ContrerasJan 30, 2012

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