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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] another poke at the special chars


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] another poke at the special chars
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:08:57 -0800 (PST)


    > From: Jani Monoses <address@hidden>

    > on with the beating of the same hopefully still alive horse:

    > the '=' and '+' characters at start of filenames. No need to repeat the
    > issues with them for users of some shells and vi I'll just add that
    > more(1) and less(1) can't cope with files starting with + either.
    > Tom said he could agree with changing = to ~~. 

What I suggested was that zsh be modified.   In zsh, I'm told:

        =foo

is shorthand for:

        `which foo`

and I suggested that zsh use:

        ~~foo

instead.

-t




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