Re: first adventures

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/26/2014 10:50 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Oct 26, 10:20am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } I'm trying to figure out where/how command lines are grabbed (I think
> } this is done by zle?).
>
> Well, it's done by ZLE when ZLE is active, which it isn't always.
>
> However, I think what you're looking for is Src/Zle/zle_main.c in the
Nuts! I never even thought to look in a subdir.  No wonder all trails 
went cold.
> function zle_main_entry() under "case ZLE_CMD_READ" where the call to
> zleread() is made.  Or perhaps where that's called, which is usually
> from Src/input.c:inputline() via zleentry(ZLE_CMD_READ, ...).
>
> } ... I'm hoping there will be some_string somewhere such that:
> }
> }     puts(some_string)
> }
> } ... will print exactly:
> }
> }     some-command $1 *.* !{1, 1 & @ >>! $2 "no parsing please!" .. ()
> } '<<' `# ^ -n(*&<)` {}
>
> No, that there isn't, though if you look around line 296 of input.c where
> the VERBOSE option is handled, you'll get close.  The input line is read
> into what's called "metafied" form by zleread() and has to be unmetafied
> [by the aptly named function unmetafy(), Src/utils.c] to return it to
> the raw input form.
But.  But ... we can't get the string before it's metafied in the first 
place? How is it possible
for it to be metafied before 'it' exists? If I can have a meta-fried 
egg, surely at some point there
was a raw egg? I was looking in hist.c, because the one place where 
things seem to be
stored 'literally' is in .histfile.

The Tao of zsh is a deep thing.

But somehow I just can't get anything to print if interactive.  I've got 
lots of feedback
if adding " puts("Hi. This is line xxx of file xxx")  " ... sort of 
things in the code
when  running a script, but if interactive nothing ever shows:

//    if (isset(VERBOSE)) {
    /* Output the whole line read so far. */
    zputs(ingetcline, stderr);
    fflush(stderr);
 //   }

... nothing doing, no output. I tried it from console too. Nothing. Is 
the xterm somehow
interfering?