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authortjg <tjg>2001-10-01 12:54:26 +0000
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:23:19 +0100
commit8ce5bc05bcf9b263a65eb6e8d6bae0e610a88b16 (patch)
treed1e35e9054b5ab6d82c0c277b80da892782b6033 /rc.1
parent593a3857b992c85038276eb0e4c8aa20d796f3de (diff)
Bug: it's no longer possible to use parentheses to sneak a word that
needs quoting past the "quoting detector", so `fn x { echo $(x.y) }' now works both in the current rc and its descendants.
Diffstat (limited to 'rc.1')
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diff --git a/rc.1 b/rc.1
index 6d9739f..ca777d7 100644
--- a/rc.1
+++ b/rc.1
@@ -1933,17 +1933,6 @@ The
notation for flattening should allow for using an arbitrary
separating character, not just space.
.PP
-It is usually possible to use parentheses to defeat
-free caret insertion; that is, to use
-.Cr $(x.y)
-as a synonym for
-.Cr $'x.y' .
-However, the former syntax is not correctly handled in functions
-exported to the environment: a function defined using this syntax will
-not work properly in descendant
-.I rc
-processes.
-.PP
List definitions in exported functions are "noisier" than they need to be.
.PP
If both
@@ -1960,11 +1949,6 @@ but such elements will be split at the colon in descendant
.I rc
processes.
.PP
-The
-.Cr .
-command should search
-.Cr $path .
-.PP
Extra parentheses around a
.Cr ~
expression or a