bad_pattern

• if a pattern or glob is badly formed, print out an error

brace_ccl

• See:

zsh% setopt no_brace_ccl
zsh% print {abc.}file
{abc.}file
zsh% setopt brace_ccl
zsh% print {abc.}file
.file afile bfile cfile

equals

• the mighty =command expansion; try: print =emacs (if you've emacs installed)

extended_glob

• of course, you want zsh's extended globbing features… Set this one, Luke!
• "thou shalt always setopt extendedglob, and ye shall be saved much misery" (teratorn in #zsh, ca. 2007)

glob_dots

• don't require a leading dot for matching "hidden" files

glob_subst

• foo="*"; print $foo will print all files

case_glob

• be case sensitive when globbing

nullglob

• is a glob does not return matches, remove the glob from the argumentlist instead of reporting an error

There are several options that affect zsh's behavior when a pattern doesn't produce any filenames. They are summarized in this table, taken from From Bash to Z Shell, p. 212.

% ls
file1.h file1.c