Re: docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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"?

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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