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,

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