On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 9:40:30 PM UTC+12, J S wrote:
> That zero works in bash is, of course, not mentioned in "man bash".
In the manual, in 3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion, it says:
In each of the cases below, word is subject to tilde expansion, parameter
expansion, command substitution,
That zero works in bash is, of course, not mentioned in "man bash". How did
you figure that out?Maybe I should take it up with the bash maintainer.
From the manual: "If offset evaluates to a number less than zero…"
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On 2019/05/21 13:17, someone replied thusly to 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
>> But is also allows the offset (and then length, too, but ignore that
>> for now) to be negative. But, alas, as noted in "man bash", if the
>> offset is negative, you have to
>> put a space after the :, in order to avoid
