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Re: Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:45:53 +0200
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/49112>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:34 PM Marlon Richert
<marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...] the documentation in
> https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#Special-Widgets
> could be updated to guide the user towards azhw.
>
> [...] 3rd-party developers should be strongly
> encouraged to use azhw and not zle -N zle-X.

Given the current state of add-zle-hook-widget [*] I would be wary of
giving this advice. I personally never use it and cannot recommend
anyone to use it. If your goal is to write a robust plugin that is
unlikely to break in the presence of other plugins,
add-zle-hook-widget is a poor choice.

Roman.

[*] This thread, workers/49084 and workers/49085.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?
  - From: Daniel Shahaf

References:
- Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?
  - From: Marlon Richert
- Re: Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?
  - From: Daniel Shahaf
- Re: Does add-zle-hook-widget violate the contract of ZLE hook widgets?
  - From: Marlon Richert

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