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Re: Completing parameter names that have yet to be set.
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- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Completing parameter names that have yet to be set.
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:54:01 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Felix Rosencrantz's message of Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:30:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> Since there is some talk about parameter completion... I've had a
> custom version of _parameter for some time that I've been meaning to
> document and submit. The customization was that it could complete
> parameters that were not yet set. Using a style, the user specifies a
> list of parameters that they want zsh to know about to complete.
>
> For example, with the zsh distribution there is the TESTNUM environment
> variable, which can be used to specify a subset of the zsh tests when
> running "make check" . However, most of the time this environment
> variable is unset. I can't always remember the special variable. So
> it's nice that zsh completion can.
That's why I gave the `fake' style such a generic name. Although that
probably wasn't so clever, because the value-formats may have to
differ for different types of completions to fake.
> I think it would be useful if the style specification allowed for descriptions
> of these parameters. The descriptions could be used for parameters that
> are already set. Though I'm not sure how to do this (with _values?).
`fake' doesn't allow this yet (and the way it is used makes it hard
(and probably a bit ugly, code-wise) to implement it there). But of
course one can always do it with tag-labels and ignored-patterns.
> ...
>
> It seems like the ability to tell zsh of words that can't be found by
> querying the system (e.g. these parameter names, files that don't exist
> yet, etc. ) would be useful. I was thinking that it would be useful
> to add some generic code that would (maybe a completer). Maybe using
> the new cache system. The code would allow the user to specify a set of
> words to be tossed in with the words that standard completion functions
> complete. I'm not sure what would be a good solution. This is more
> meant to provoke some response/thought by the completion gurus.
Given that the faked completions depend on the contexts, the type of
completions and the user's preferences, I don't know how a function
could help here. Maybe we'll just have to use `fake' (or several
`fake-this-or-that' styles that replace `fake'), get some experience
with it and then find out if and how we can improve it. And if it's
needed.
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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