Hello,
> Personally, I'd just want an option to always make . and .. hidden from
> globs. [...]
If such option existed, I would certainly use it.
As I already said, I can't imagine why anyone would ever want a pattern to
match `.' or `..' (unless the entire path component is literal).
But even i
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:00:21PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM Léa Gris wrote:
>
> For the second person, there's of course "thou", but for some reason,
> I've never heard anyone suggest using that in practice.
Hast thou never been to Yorkshire or Lancashire? :-)
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021, at 12:35 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2021-06-05T23:29:58-0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > doc/oldbash.texi
> > 178:manual. Brian and Diane would like to thank Chet Ramey for his
> > 9138:# The alternative explanation is that his frequent use of the
>
>
Le 06/06/2021 à 16:34, Oğuz écrivait :
Then there is no need to change anything.
Exactly.
As a woman, I take no offense when a documentation illustrate a fictive
male character. (and as I will illustrate below, in French pronouns are
tuned in gender and number with the object). I am not offe
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:12:21PM +0300, Oğuz wrote:
> If that really is a problem that has to be addressed and not
> bike-shedding, let's compromise and say "his/her" instead of "his" or
> "their".
*sigh*
I probably shouldn't do this, but let's dive into this just a bit, because
apparently it's
In my previous message, I wrote:
> Yes, it all depends on the "universal set" from which the matches of the inner
> `pattern-list' are subtracted.
> But in the current implementation, the inner matches are subtracted from:
> - all files, if dotglob is set
> - all except dot files, if dotglob is uns
6 Haziran 2021 Pazar tarihinde Alain D D Williams yazdı:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:12:21PM +0300, Oğuz wrote:
>
> > If that really is a problem that has to be addressed and not
> > bike-shedding, let's compromise and say "his/her" instead of "his" or
> > "their".
>
> Possible, but it detracts
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:12:21PM +0300, Oğuz wrote:
> If that really is a problem that has to be addressed and not
> bike-shedding, let's compromise and say "his/her" instead of "his" or
> "their".
Possible, but it detracts from the clarity of the sentence that it is in.
> Though I don't think
6 Haziran 2021 Pazar tarihinde Ilkka Virta yazdı:
>
> I do wonder, though, what the gender-neutral delusion here would be? That
> there exist women
> who use computers and Unix-like systems, and not just men? Even I know, in
> real life, some
> female Linux users, and while I haven't asked about s
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM Léa Gris wrote:
> Either you're acting in bad faith, or you're so confused by your
> gender-neutral delusion that you don't remember that in normal people's
> grammar, "they" is a plural pronoun.
>
Argh, no, that's just an example of the fact that I can't read. Sor
Léa, I see that in the section Ilkka quoted you were using it in the
plural. However Ilkka is exactly right; despite "they" being technically
plural, using it for somebody of undetermined gender has been in the
mainstream since long before inclusive language. "Someone left *their*
book, there's no
Le 06/06/2021 à 06:35, G. Branden Robinson écrivait :
Here you go, if you're inclined. Minimally invasive and decidedly
non-revolutionary in terms on English lexicon.
Your careful patch not using custom grammar is admirable. Although I
remain alarmed because this is a work to obey a demand fr
Le 06/06/2021 à 11:33, Ilkka Virta écrivait :
In fact, that generic 'they' is so common and accepted, that you just used
it yourself
in the part I quoted above.
Either you're acting in bad faith, or you're so confused by your
gender-neutral delusion that you don't remember that in normal peopl
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 1:31 PM Ilkka Virta wrote:
> Personally, I'd just want an option to always make . and .. hidden from
> globs. Or rather,
> to never generate . or .. as a pathname component via globbing. But
> without affecting
> other behaviour, like dotglob, and without precluding the use
> Can you write a set of rules that encapsulates what you would like to see?
> Or can the group?
>
I think it's a bit weird that !(.foo) can match . and .. when * doesn't.
The other means roughly "anything here", and the other means "anything but
.foo here",
so having the latter match things the
Hi Chet,
Here you go, if you're inclined. Minimally invasive and decidedly
non-revolutionary in terms on English lexicon.
Patch attached.
At 2021-06-05T23:29:58-0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> doc/oldbash.texi
> 178:manual. Brian and Diane would like to thank Chet Ramey for his
>
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 5:50 AM Léa Gris wrote:
> Le 05/06/2021 à 18:47, John Passaro écrivait :
> > I can see a couple reasons why it would be a good thing, and in the con
> > column only "I personally don't have time to go through the manual and
> make
> > these changes". but I'd happily upvote
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