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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: completion
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:33:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0AA84BB7-CC9E-4FD2-9CC6-9C0B90313C03@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AD8803.4020704@eastlink.ca>

On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> And used as a sort of 'wildcard', that would be fine, *but*
> it shouldn't change the number of separators:
> 
> kill (  :Ray:*:*:Montreal:*:*: )

How is this any better than just having empty fields?

This might be an issue in an academic sense, and the documentation should certainly be cleared up, but I'd imagine that anyone actually doing this sort of complex matching would write out the empty fields instead of playing games with asterisks.

vq

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-07 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10 23:15 completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-10 23:31 ` completion Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-11  0:34 ` completion Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-11  1:17   ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11  5:44     ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 16:40       ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11 17:28         ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 19:34           ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 15:01             ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-07 15:28               ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 16:58                 ` completion Mikael Magnusson
2015-01-07 17:06                   ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 18:33                   ` completion Ray Andrews
     [not found]                     ` <CAH+w=7Z_B2ghc21QgHxA8FEV7W8uQnjEwtPqK3tL-kjPihjicA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-07 19:54                       ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 18:48               ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 19:24                 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:33                   ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2015-01-07 20:06                     ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:51                   ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 20:15                     ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 20:42                     ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 23:00                       ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08  5:09                         ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08  8:31                         ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 16:52                           ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08  0:43                 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08  0:57                   ` completion ZyX
2015-01-08  1:15                     ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08  6:03                       ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08  5:26                   ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 12:36                     ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10  2:12                       ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-12  9:09                         ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-12 16:43                           ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-13 16:03                             ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14  2:56                               ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 17:12                     ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-09  9:37                       ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10  5:33                       ` completion Bart Schaefer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-03 17:44 completion Ray Andrews
2012-12-03 18:31 ` completion Ray Andrews
2007-05-15 15:27 Completion Anonymous bin ich
2007-05-15 16:23 ` Completion Peter Stephenson
2006-02-20 12:54 Completion Etienne Chové
2006-02-20 18:51 ` Completion Clint Adams
2006-02-20 19:47   ` Completion Etienne Chové
2003-12-22 23:15 Completion Seth Kurtzberg
2000-02-22 14:58 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:47 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 15:01 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 11:36 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:24 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 18:01   ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-15  8:42 Completion Claus Alboege
2000-02-21 22:20 ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-22 10:37   ` Completion Andy Spiegl

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