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Re: completing history words
- X-seq: zsh-workers 12176
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: completing history words
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:36:44 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Oliver Kiddle's message of Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:10:10 +0100
- Mailing-list: contact zsh-workers-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; run by ezmlm
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> I'm a little bit mystified by the way _history_complete_word is
> implemented as it seems to re-implement menu-completion while not
> offering non-menu completion. Why does it not just complete history
> words and rely on separate completers based on different builtin
> widgets (menu-complete, complete-word etc)? I wanted to be able to
> complete history in a fairly normal way but it behaves in a slightly
> strange way, doing things like inserting a match for ambiguous
> completions.
It's rather old...
> I created a small function (_complete_history) containing just the
> line:
> compadd -Q -a 'historywords[2,-1]'
Have you seen the _history completer?
> ...
>
>
> It actually seems to have a problem with strange characters (e.g.
> '$') not being considered part of the word being completed but other
> than that, it is fine.
See some recent mails, _history and _h_c_w put $IPREFIX into $PREFIX
for that.
> Obviously, my _complete_history function could be much improved with
> styles for sorting and to manipulate compstate so listing etc can be
> turned off but this way of doing it seems better to me. It is much
> simpler and configuration of it will be more similar to configuring for
> other completion widgets. Can anyone please explain why it is currently
> done differently?
Well, Adam will have to have the final word about this...
Bye
Sven
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