EQUALS =command expansion

[Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

this does what i'd expect:

 $ ls -lh =lpr-portrait =lpr-landscape
 -rwxr-xr-x  1 atom  atom  89B Nov 21 04:13 /home/atom/bin/lpr-landscape
 -rwxr-xr-x  1 atom  atom  88B Nov 21 04:11 /home/atom/bin/lpr-portrait


but if i try to use TAB to expand "=lpr-*" it doesn't work. even without a 
TAB expansion, i get this:

 $ ls -lh =lpr-*
 zsh: lpr-* not found

another example that i'd expect to "just work":
 $ ls -l =*grep
 zsh: *grep not found

i'd expect that to return:
 /usr/bin/grep
 /usr/bin/egrep
 /usr/bin/fgrep
 /usr/bin/bzgrep
 /usr/bin/bzegrep
 /usr/bin/bzfgrep
 /usr/bin/zgrep
 /usr/bin/zegrep
 /usr/bin/zfgrep
 /usr/bin/pgrep
 /usr/local/bin/msggrep
 /usr/local/bin/zipgrep
 /usr/local/bin/pcregrep

(a lot of greps, and i haven't even installed ngrep on this box, yet.)

ZSH_VERSION=4.3.2

intuitively, the string "=lpr-*" should expand both with the TAB and when 
executed on the command line. a quick look at the man pages doesn't seem 
to indicate that this wouldn't work.

 1) is this a zsh bug?
 2) a documentation bug?
 3) operator error?

thanks...


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