Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>:
> * Gus Tavares <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080407 11:42]:
> 
> > Using your mouse, please copy and paste onto your zsh commandline the following
> > line:
> 
> > echo '#a,.b'
> 
> > The result is:
> 
> > #ab
> [...]
> 
> I guess it's because of:
> 
> % bindkey ,.
> ",." globalias

That's right.

> Frank, any ideas how we could "work around" this issue?

Off hand, I do not see an elegant way to deal with this.

We could create a binding, that would toggle these abbreviations on
and off. Or we could introduce a variable $DISABLE_ABBREV.

Neither of these solutions is exceptionally nice.
I'll think about it...

How would you measure the "badness" of this? I have some difficulties
in judging this, because I do not use things like the abbreviations
stuff in my own configuration. Does stuff like this problem piss
people more off than not having abbreviations at all?

Regards, Frank

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