Your message dated Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:25 +0100
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and subject line Closing 654444, due to not being a bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #654444,
regarding zsh: `q' flag for paramater expansion does not work as advertised
to be marked as done.
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654444: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654444
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Package: zsh
Version: 4.3.12-1
Severity: normal
The manual says this about the flag:
,----
| q
| Quote the resulting words with backslashes; unprintable or invalid
| characters are quoted using the $'\NNN' form, with separate quotes
| for each octet. [...]
`----
Unfortunately, the second clause seems to be only half correct;
unprintable characters do get wrapped in $'...', but not \NNN escaped:
,----
| naesten@hydrogen:~/hacking/crawl/crawl-ref/source% echo -n ${(q)$(echo
| -e "\e")}|hd
| 00000000 24 27 1b 27 |$'.'|
| 00000004
`----
Of course, what I'd *really* like would be for this to get escaped as
\e, not \NNN, but I was at least expecting the documented behavior!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.16-5 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libncursesw5 5.9-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpcre3 8.12-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
Versions of packages zsh suggests:
ii zsh-doc 4.3.10-14 zsh documentation - info/HTML form
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/zsh/zlogin changed:
/etc/zsh/zlogout changed:
/etc/zsh/zprofile changed:
-- debconf information:
* zsh/rcmove:
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Dear BTS,
I'm closing this bug, as it is not really a bug, but expected behaviour,
as described in the short conversation with the original reporter¹.
Regards, Frank
¹ <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654444>
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