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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 21:00:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:18:30 -0700
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 7,  9:10pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> }
>> } It looks like it has to be Y- (or something else)
>>
>> I considered suggesting (Y/) for "short-circuit directories".
>
> That might be a good idea.

The only argument against this syntax (and I'm not saying it's a
strong argument) is that you have to choose between being able to
shortcircuit a subtree, or excluding a particular match that happens
to be a directory (while still including children of that directory).
Unless like before this only applies to the final ~ pattern in the,
er, pattern?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson