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Any reason to eschew short_loops in general that you're aware of? I ask because I'd probably use `for i ({0..9}) echo $i` in your for loop example. I've never managed to get my head around the necessity for a narrow short_repeat option when there is - for example - no short_select.

All of the zsh alternate forms feel far superior to me, in both interactive use and within scripts.

JNRowe notes the many off-by-one translations in other examples and tips hat to arp242

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Oh yeah, I forgot about the {n..m} syntax; I almost always use repeat these days or the C-style loop if I need $i, as that's more "in the fingers", so to speak, from other languages, even though {n..m} is easier.

I don't know why you would want to avoid short loops, other than subjective stylistic reasons (which is completely valid of course). The patch that added short_repeat just asserts that "SHORT_LOOPS is bad"[1], but I don't now why the author thinks that.

Also: my previous comment was wrong; you don't need "setopt short_repeat"; you only need it if you explicitly turned off short loops with "setopt no_short_loops".

[1]: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg01174.html