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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/Zsh/options.yo')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/options.yo | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo index b9455f578..b59fa624a 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo @@ -544,12 +544,14 @@ List jobs in the long format by default. ) pindex(MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST) item(tt(MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST))( -All unquoted arguments of the form `var(identifier)tt(=)var(expression)' +All unquoted arguments of the form `var(anything)tt(=)var(expression)' appearing after the command name have filename expansion (that is, where var(expression) has a leading `tt(~)' or `tt(=)') performed on var(expression) as if it were a parameter assignment. The argument is not otherwise treated specially; it is passed to the command as a single -argument, and not used as an actual parameter assignment. +argument, and not used as an actual parameter assignment. For example, in +tt(echo foo=~/bar:~/rod), both occurrences of tt(~) would be replaced. +Note that this happens anyway with tt(typeset) and similar statements. ) pindex(MAIL_WARNING) cindex(mail, warning of reading) |