From fc1ae21fdac97399163b93e26818fadebcc11cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 12:29:52 -0700
Subject: unposted: Add details about ${(*)...} expansion

---
 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ab4f0649..d7a817c1e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ of CLOBBER for empty files only. It is disabled by default.
 A (-) expansion flag was added. It works like (n) but correctly sorts
 negative numbers.
 
+The (*) expansion flag enables EXTENDED_GLOB for pattern matching.
+For example, ${(*)sample/(#b)*(pat)*/${match[1]}} uses backreferences
+even if EXTENDED_GLOB is not otherwise set.  However, this does not
+descend into nested exapansions, and doubling as (**) does not disable
+EXTENDED_GLOB.
+
 The compinit function learnt a -w option to explain why compdump runs.
 When run without the -i or -u options and compaudit discovers security
 issues, answering "y" to the "Ignore insecure ..." prompt removes the
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