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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo index aadc72dfc..5768b82df 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo @@ -1006,6 +1006,17 @@ errors are silently ignored. item(tt(z))( Split the result of the expansion into words using shell parsing to find the words, i.e. taking into account any quoting in the value. +Comments are not treated specially but as ordinary strings, similar +to interactive shells with the tt(INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS) option unset. + +The flag can take option letters between a following pair of +`tt(PLUS())' characters. tt(LPAR()z+PLUS()c+PLUS()RPAR()) causes +comments to be parsed as a string and retained; any field in the +resulting array beginning with an unquoted comment character is a +comment. tt(LPAR()z+PLUS()C+PLUS()RPAR()) causes comments to be parsed +and removed. The rule for comments is standard: anything between a word +starting with the third charcter of tt($HISTCHARS), default tt(#), up to +the next newline is a comment. Note that this is done very late, as for the `tt((s))' flag. So to access single words in the result, one has to use nested expansions as |