Re: Trial patch for showing completion in progress

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> How about this?
> 
>     zstyle () {
>         [[ $3 = matcher-list ]] && {
>             zle -R "Trying completion for $2"
>             sleep 1
>         }
>         builtin zstyle "$@"
>     }

Nasty but interesting.  The `sleep 1' misses the point, however, which
is that you see what it's doing in real time.  If it's fast enough that
the message doesn't appear, you don't care.

> > Is there a way of removing the zle -M output if the completion produced
> > no output?
> 
> Using zle -R instead of -M takes care of that.  Is there some other bad
> side-effect of -R?

That would be fine.  I was thinking it shouldn't be connected with a
redisplay, but of course it has to be in any case.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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