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  • GammaOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago
    Corrections

    It impressively identified exactly what eoo meant, and handled the array splicing, but it tripped over Zsh’s globbing syntax.

    /(#m)^-*: This is a pattern match within a substitution. It matches any occurrences of hyphens (-) at the beginning of each element.

    1. The : in ${foo:/pat/repl} requires pat to match the whole element
    2. The ^ actually negates the match, rather than anchors it to the start. ^-* matches any element not beginning with a hyphen.
    3. The (#m) flag captures the whole match in the parameter $MATCH.
    4. ${MATCH:a} transforms relative paths to absolute paths.
    Full context

    I use this as a wrapper around nvim --remote to make sure any non-options (i.e.: files) I pass have absolute paths rather than relative paths.