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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo index 5ba3e21af..8bbe7800b 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo @@ -1539,6 +1539,16 @@ specified in any of the three numbers, specifying it in the third can be useful to pad for example `tt({-99..100..01})' which is not possible to specify by putting a 0 on either of the first two numbers (i.e. pad to two characters). +An expression of the form `tt({)var(c1)tt(..)var(c2)tt(})', where +var(c1) and var(c2) are single characters (which may be multibyte +characters), is expanded to every character in the range from var(c1) to +var(c2) in whatever character sequence is used internally. For +characters with code points below 128 this is US ASCII (this is the only +case most users will need). If any intervening character is not +printable, appropriate quotation is used to render it printable. +If the character sequence is reversed, the output is in reverse +order, e.g. `tt({d..a})' is substituted as `tt(d c b a)'. + If a brace expression matches none of the above forms, it is left unchanged, unless the option tt(BRACE_CCL) (an abbreviation for `brace character class') is set. |