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Re: PATCH: Re: 3.1.6-dev-22
- X-seq: zsh-workers 10654
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: 3.1.6-dev-22
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:37:55 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Adam Spiers's message of Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:32:22 +0100
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Adam Spiers wrote:
> ...
>
> > The whole thing comes from a time when we were thinking about ways to
> > get information about the matches already added. Then I was thinking
> > about using it for the stuff that is now done with _next_tags. I
> > didn't expect so much consistency and control in the shell code then.
> >
> > So, I would like to make the question: should we remove it? I would
> > only comment it out in the C-code just in case we get a way to access
> > matches added some day (not for a long time, I think).
> >
> > Actually, I was already tempted to remove it more than once and I
> > don't think it would cause much harm (or any at all) -- noone has
> > written another example completion system and the one we have doesn't
> > use this feature.
>
> Doesn't history-complete-word need this feature?
I was only talking about removing the group-number from
$compstate[insert]. h-c-w, like other functions in the completion
system, uses the match-number feature, without a group number. That
would be kept.
Bye
Sven
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