On 09/12/2010 09:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
On 12 Sep 2010, at 23:41, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents.* doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): zsh 4.3.10 adds a newline to empty here-docs. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index e8d65cb..344aefa 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -14897,6 +14897,15 @@ Here-Documents @samp{ksh93g} (1998-04-30) but as of 2006 many operating systems were still shipping older versions with the bug. +Empty here-documents are not portable either: @command{zsh} 4.3.10 creates +a file with a single newline upon, whereas other shells create an empty +file, upon:Two colons in a sentence seems odd to me, and the English doesn't parse well either. How about: "Empty here-documents are not portable either; with the following code, @command{zsh} 4.3.10 creates a file with a single newline, whereas other shells create an empty file:" Also, is it really just that one micro release of zsh that has this problem? Or do you mean "since 4.3.10" or maybe "before 4.3.10" or even "at least 4.3.10"?
I like "at least 4.3.10". Okay with Gary's proposed wording changes. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
