[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1022758: Bug#1022758: Bug#1022758: zsh doesn't recognise double quotes with an exclamation mark

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Michael Prokop wrote:
> close 1022758

Thanks for the swift reaction, Mika! :-)

> "!" has a special meaning in zsh, so this behaves as expected and
> documented. You need to use single quotes or drop "!" from
> $histchars, if you want to disable this behavior.

Please also note that other shells have this feature, too, even GNU
Bash.

But Bash is less picky and accepts the erroneous

  echo "Hello!"

command. It though still would expand e.g. a followup

  echo "Hello!e"

to

  echo "Helloecho "Hello!""

		Regards, Axel
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