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Re: Moving away from compctl

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sven Wischnowsky)
Subject: Re: Moving away from compctl
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:58:12 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199910210935.LAA04161@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Sven Wischnowsky at "Oct 21, 1999 11:35:11 am"
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Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
>  - aliases - Supplying a hash for them is relatively simple, only a
>      small problem with the normal/global aliases difference. Maybe
>      we can solve this by using keys like `regular:foo' and
>      `global:bar' or something. 

It may not be necessary in this case, but generally there wouldn't
be a problem with using multiple associative arrays to hold multiple
data items.

>      But then, maybe we don't need this because it is so seldom used
>      that we can just use `$(alias)'. And `$(disable -a)' and
>      `$(enable -a)' to get at that information.

I think this kind of information should be available via special
parameters, so that we don't have to fork and use a textual intermediate
form and so on when doing this kind of thing.  And of course using
parameters means we don't have to worry about quoting special characters.

-zefram

References:
- Moving away from compctl
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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