Re: PATCH: Add $ZLE_STATE in zle widgets

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I'm pretty happy with my current setup anyway. It would be cool to
>> > have a way to add a "V" mode to my prompt when `vared' is active.
>> > That could probably be done with {pre,post}-vared hook widgets. I
>> > didn't look into that yet, though.  (Actually, since I wrote this
>> > mail while being on a train, I did look at this by now. This is not
>> > as trivial as I had hoped, since zle cannot be run recursively. Oh
>> > well, I'm rarely using `vared' anyway.)
>> 
>> Should be trivial to add this to ZLE_STATE internally.
>
> Turns out you can already test [[ $CONTEXT = vared ]].

Yes. But for my problem (signal that a vared is running in the shells
*main* prompt) that doesn't help, because there's no widget called
at the right time.

Regards, Frank