Re: Comments in ZLE

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kba <unixprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:01:37PM +0100, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> > Frank Jeschke <jes@xxxxxxxxx>:
[...]
> > > sss@kyag:[~]$ #vim /tmp/foo
> > > zsh: command not found: #vim
[...]
> > 
> > % man zshoptions | less -p INTERACTIVE_COM
> 
> I shared Frank's confusion until I recently stumbled over the
> INTERACTIVE_COM option by accident. Is there a specific reason why this

It's actually INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS. I was too lazy to type it out.
Less's -p option just wants a pattern to search for, so that was
enough. :-)

> is off by default? To avoid clashes with commands that start with '#'?

Well, I'd guess it's been done to let people use the hash char without
needing to quote it. After all, who really uses comments in
interactive mode? (yeah, I know some people do. But they can just use
said option.)

> Can '#' be used to do history expansion like '!' or something like this?

Not that I would know, why?

Regards, Frank

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