Debug zsh (was: Re: quoting question)

[Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, hope I'm doing this banching of the thread the right way

I would like to understand this:

% echo "${:-{{{{}"
<dquote braceparam braceparam braceparam braceparam dquote:~code/zsh>%

is that output generated automatically or was it human-made?

thanks

Pier Paolo Grassi

Il giorno mer 13 set 2023 alle ore 05:42 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 7:51 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Unless I misunderstood, adding 'setopt ignorebraces' to the function, returned the
> same results as it did without it. Don't know if that helps, or confuses things more.

You have to setopt ignorebraces before you define the datetimetest
function.  Otherwise the internals of the function have already been
parsed and the behavior doesn't change.