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Re: flex -<TAB>
- X-seq: zsh-workers 9559
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: flex -<TAB>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:43:11 +0100 (MET)
- In-reply-to: Alexandre Duret-Lutz's message of 04 Feb 2000 10:30:39 +0100
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Tanaka" == Tanaka Akira <akr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Tanaka> Z(2):akr@is27e1u11% Src/zsh -f
> Tanaka> is27e1u11% bindkey -e; autoload -U compinit; compinit -D; compdef _tst tst
> Tanaka> is27e1u11% flex -<TAB>
> Tanaka> - -- generate C++ scanner class
> Tanaka> -7 -- generate 7-bit scanner
> Tanaka> ...
>
> Tanaka> The option `+' isn't displayed.
>
> I think this is since 9216. The character just after `-' in an argument
> definition was not checked before, but now it is. And since `+' has a
> special meaning for _arguments, perhaps the cleaner way to correct this is
> to escape it.
I think we better document this.
Bye
Sven
diff -ru ../z.old/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo
--- ../z.old/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo Fri Feb 4 09:53:48 2000
+++ Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo Fri Feb 4 10:42:17 2000
@@ -2084,7 +2084,10 @@
and no other argument specification may be given after it.
In the simplest form the var(opt-spec) is just the option name
-beginning with a minus or a plus sign, such as `tt(-foo)'. In this
+beginning with a minus or a plus sign, such as `tt(-foo)'. If the
+command accepts the option both with a leading minus and a plus sign,
+one can use either tt(-+foo) or tt(+-foo) to define both options at
+once. In this
case, the first argument for the option (if any) has to come as a
separate word directly after the option and the option may appear only
once on the line (and if it is already on the line, the option name
@@ -2097,6 +2100,10 @@
instead. If the argument may be given as the next string or in same
string as the option name but separated from it by an equal sign, a
`tt(=)' should be used instead of the minus or plus sign.
+
+Note that this and the shortcut syntax with a leading tt(-+) or tt(+-)
+means that for options like tt(-+) the second character has to be
+quoted with a backslash.
If the option may be given more than once, a star
(`tt(*)') has to be added in front of the var(opt-spec).
--
Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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