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Re: Odd behavior of quoted Zsh array subtraction

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Odd behavior of quoted Zsh array subtraction
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:34:58 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/26800>
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 2:51 AM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You are in particular interested in the ordering relation between
> item 5 and item 7.  [...] if the
> current level is double quoted then words will be joined before
> history modifiers are applied.

This is correct, but item 7 sort of sweeps up :| and :* (etc.) by
accident, because they aren't really history modifiers.  For example,
// is called out explicitly there, but :/ is not.  Item 7 has not been
kept up to date with several of the more recently added forms of
parameter manipulation.

References:
- Odd behavior of quoted Zsh array subtraction
  - From: Zach Riggle
- Re: Odd behavior of quoted Zsh array subtraction
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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