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Re: PATCH: context names
- X-seq: zsh-workers 9711
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: PATCH: context names
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:34:23 +0100 (MET)
- In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:16:46 +0000
- Mailing-list: contact zsh-workers-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; run by ezmlm
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> ...
>
> and I still want to be able to override them with ':completion:*', which
> won't work because it's `less specific'. Is there an advantage for
> specifying all those colons here?
No.
> In any case, I'm gradually coming round to the view that the defaults for
> styles should be hard-wired into the functions (i.e. should be set as
> values internally if style retrieval failed). The big drawback is you
> can't see them with `zstyle'. However, they are almost always the
> simplest, most basic behaviour, so I don't think that's a big problem (they
> should of course be documented anyway). It's pretty normal for settings of
> any kind to have builtin defaults which you don't see. The benefits are
> presumably obvious: everything the user enters takes precedence, nothing
> bogus (that will never be used) shows up with zstyle, nothing needs
> deleting.
Right. I won't have enough time to do this now, I'll try it later...
> Second point.
>
> ^Xh always gives a context with no added trailing colon for the tag,
> e.g. `:completion::complete:echo:'. I presume we're retaining the feature
> of the old system that since tags weren't always useful, the relevant colon
> wasn't added. If we're now adopting the convention that all (other) colons
> always appear, then it might be more consistent to have the colon before
> the notional tag there too, so there would be six colons altogether, any
> time the completion context is used, with or without an actual tag at the
> end.
Oops. This was an oversight.
Bye
Sven
diff -ru ../z.old/Completion/Commands/_complete_help Completion/Commands/_complete_help
--- ../z.old/Completion/Commands/_complete_help Mon Feb 14 11:29:02 2000
+++ Completion/Commands/_complete_help Mon Feb 14 11:32:09 2000
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
for i in "${(@k)help_funcs}"; do
text="${text}
-tags in context :completion:${i}"
+tags in context :completion:${i}:"
for j in "${(@s.:.)help_funcs[$i][2,-1]}"; do
text="${text}${help_tags[${i}${j}]} (${j})"
done
--
Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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