On 8/11/23 4:19 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, 02:29 Dale R. Worley, <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
… The line is broken into words in the same fashion as when reading
input, so that several metacharacter-separated words surrounded by quotes
are considered one word. …
I think it would be helpful to start this sentence with "The selected
line…", to differentiate from the line just entered containing a "!".
It's both, actually. The line being expanded is broken into words to bound
the history expansion, since a history expansion doesn't extend to multiple
words, and the event is broken into words for the rest of the process.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
