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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2007-08-18 10:08:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2007-08-18 10:08:41 +0000 |
| commit | 34570ca31863a06c0bd8963c2530248f18f79a04 (patch) | |
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| parent | b37f52b8841f6a21a898e8f6e5acb7021ea94853 (diff) | |
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23778: document KSH_TYPESET behaviour in typeset manual entry
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo | 9 |
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b22267c78..a721833c3 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-08-18 Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> + + * 23778: Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo: document KSH_TYPESET behaviour + in the typeset manual entry. + 2007-08-18 Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org> * 23775: Completion/Unix/Command/_growisofs: diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo index 5eb71adb1..413e43ed8 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo @@ -1331,7 +1331,14 @@ retain their special attributes when made local. For each var(name)tt(=)var(value) assignment, the parameter var(name) is set to var(value). Note that arrays currently cannot be -assigned in tt(typeset) expressions, only scalars and integers. +assigned in tt(typeset) expressions, only scalars and integers. Unless +the option tt(KSH_TYPESET) is set, normal expansion rules apply to +assignment arguments, so var(value) may be split into separate words; if +the option is set, assignments which can be recognised when expansion is +performed are treated as single words. For example the command +tt(typeset vbl=$(echo one two)) is treated as having one argument if +tt(KSH_TYPESET) is set, but otherwise is treated as having the two arguments +tt(vbl=one) and tt(two). If the shell option tt(TYPESET_SILENT) is not set, for each remaining var(name) that refers to a parameter that is set, the name and value of the |