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From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] completion: make compatible with zsh
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:43:39 -0400
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> Mark Lodato wrote:
>
>> ${var:2}
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Zsh uses $var[3,-1] to trim the first two characters. =
=C2=A0There is no
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 way to write cross-shell code to accomplish this, so w=
e must wrap
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 this in a check for zsh.
>
> Maybe
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0${var#??}

Good idea.  I'll include this in the next version of the patch.