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minibuffer widget RE: Non-patch: zle argument handling

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>
To: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>, "Sven Wischnowsky" <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: minibuffer widget RE: Non-patch: zle argument handling
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:13:21 +0400
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> You cannot edit input with read -k.
>

Is it possible to make minibuffer separate widget? We could then do something
like:

zle .minibuffer "Prompt string" <parameter> ...

with semantics:

minibuffer reads input key with normal editing capabilities. Anything, that is
not consumed by minibuffer, is assigned to <parameter>. We could pass additional
parameters to  switch off editing if raw input is needed.

This should probably return some indication that minibuffer was cancelled (with
^G or anything else) to provide loop termination condition.

/andrej

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