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Re: PATCH: New _read and selective parameter completion
- X-seq: zsh-workers 12580
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: PATCH: New _read and selective parameter completion
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:08:51 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Oliver Kiddle's message of Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:10:51 +0100
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Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> This adds an _arguments based completion function for read. I don't think
> we have too many builtins left where conversion to use _arguments would
> still be useful. Any requests?
>
> I thought about modifying _vars to insert the '[' for arrays and
> associations but _parameters would first need to be given an option to
> make it only complete specific types of parameter. Would anyone object
> to my adding this? I was thinking of a -g option (analogous to the -g
> option of _files) where the pattern specified would be augmented with
> ~*local* and used to match the values in the $parameters association.
>
> I mentioned this vaguely before in 11284 and Sven had some good ideas
> in his reply (11293). The focus there is more towards having the
> patterns configurable via a style similar to the file-patterns tag but
> my suggested option would I think be a useful first step.
Yes. The other stuff can be added later.
I'd be happy if we were able to use _parameters in all places where
parameters are completed (e.g. in _arrays), just as we use _files now.
Bye
Sven
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