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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: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:41:13 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Felix Rosencrantz's message of Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:00:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> ...
>
> So I took a quick look at Src/Modules/zutil.c which implements zstyle. It
> looks like all the styles are held in a list pointed to by the static global
> "zstyles".
>
> It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to be able to maintain multiple lists
> that the value of zstyles could then be pointed to. The multiple lists could
> be stored as the values in a hash table, the keys would be the names of these
> lists.
>
> There would need to be user command(s) to set the name of the current list, get
> the names of the lists, set the name of the current list. To edit a zstyle
> list, you need to make that the current list pointed to by zstyles.
>
> Seems like something like that would allow having multiple configuration sets,
> and being able to quickly change them. And wouldn't require too many changes
> to the existing source code.
>
> How does that seem? Useful? Easy to implement or are there a lot of issues I
> missed?
Well, for styles we'd probably need something smarter: sub-groups. Because
people would want to temporarily replace/change/override only some
styles, not the whole set, so that some of the more basic styles are
always available. I think.
> Also, I while looking at zutil.c, I noticed that the function evalstyle() only
> modifies the existence of the parameter reply. Would it be useful to provide
> a parameter that said what the current context is? It seems it might
> make it possible to write some generic functions that could be given
> to a "zstyle -e" and make some decisions based on the context. The current
> context can be different from the context supplied to the zstyle command. The
> context provided to the zstyle command could be a pattern.
That sounds sensible.
Bye
Sven
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