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Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Patrick Reader <_@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "zsh-workers@xxxxxxx" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:47:15 -0800
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:11 AM Patrick Reader <_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When I use the `repeat` complex command with an arithmetic expression
> containing one of the following special characters: [...]
> I get an error message in the form "zsh: bad math expression: illegal
> character: \M-X".

Fixed last March:

commit 2a9674862ecaf9b7b1b66178782d47e8445df325
Author: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Mar 26 20:54:37 2020 +0000

    45616: Remove token from count argument to repeat

References:
- `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
  - From: Patrick Reader

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