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Re: ZLE Widget: Insert last word (except &)
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- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: ZLE Widget: Insert last word (except &)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:07:36 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Felix Rosencrantz's message of Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> [interface to parse command lines] ...
>
> Not sure if it has to be a new parameter expansion flag, though that was
> one possible solution. It would be useful if it could be performed
> on full command lines (e.g. from history or a file.)
>
> So what kind of things do you imagine would be possible with these new changes?
Analysing any string in the way the completion system does it now.
I don't have enough ideas about all this yet, and almost no time in
the next days or weeks.
> ...
>
> Though what I would really like in the end is better prediction, in hopes
> that would cut down on typing. For me the prediction widget is great
> in certain circumstances, but other times it just gets my the way.
> I feel that to improve it, would require better analysis of shell history,
> which requires processing command lines. Or maybe another direction for
> prediction is needed maybe someone would like to add something like rk,
> reactive keyboard, as a module. That way we might be able to get prediction
> similar to what the various web browsers provide.
Some time ago I found http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~benjamin/AUI/,
haven't had the time to really look at it yet. He's using a customized
zsh to gather information about command usage to help prediction
future commands.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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