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RE: Incomplete/misleading description of GLOB_SUBST and $~ paramter expansion flag

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>
To: "Sven Wischnowsky" <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Incomplete/misleading description of GLOB_SUBST and $~ paramter expansion flag
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:59:13 +0300
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>
> > BTW is -M flag to completion affected by GLOB_SUBST?
>
> No. Completion uses it's own matching code. Once I was dreaming of
> using the existing globbing code, but since completion needs a lot of
> information that is hard to get out of the globbing code (or
> impossible without a lot of hacking), I had to write specialised
> functions.
>


Then this should be documented as well. Are patterns used in -M (or any
pattern used in completion) extended patterns? Else short description what
can be used would be nice.

/andrej

References:
- Re: Incomplete/misleading description of GLOB_SUBST and $~ paramter expansion flag
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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