From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24756 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 20:58:09 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 20:58:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 10466 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2003 20:57:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5828 Received: (qmail 10459 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 20:57:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 20:57:37 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [4.46.181.248] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 20:57:36 -0000 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0PKvbr16227 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:57:37 -0800 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1030125205736.ZM16226@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:57:36 +0000 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to "Clifford Caoile" "Predict-on and colored/higlighted predicted text" (Jan 26, 1:43am) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Subject: Re: Predict-on and colored/higlighted predicted text MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jan 26, 1:43am, Clifford Caoile wrote: } } I have been exploring the 4.0.x functionality called "predict-on" and } "predict-off". It has been both a gee-wiz and a oh-darn experience Yes, that was pretty much my experience, even while writing it. If you haven't looked at the styles related to predictive typing, I suggest you do so ("man zshcontrib"), and perhaps try these settings: zstyle :predict verbose yes zstyle :predict cursor key zstyle ':completion:predict:*' completer \ _oldlist _complete _ignored _history _prefix I was going to suggest using the "toggle" style as well, but you'd better apply the appended patch first or you'll be saying "oh darn" even more. zstyle :predict toggle yes } Also it reminds me of recent capabilities found in Windows such } as auto complete in Internet Explorer and Visual Studio 6. That was the intention. If you want a different style of auto completion, have a look at incremental-complete-word. } I was wondering how far this prediction can be graphically enhanced? Not very far, I'm afraid. } Would it be possible to color code or highlight or underscore the part } of the line that is filled in by prediction? Unfortunately the zsh line editor does not provide a way to insert into the command line any characters that are not actually part of the command. On a text terminal, the way highlighting/underscoring/etc. is done is by sending "invisible" characters to the terminal that cause it to change the appearance of whatever follows. So without some fairly large changes to ZLE, colorizing parts of the command is not possible. However, it's always the case that everything to the right of the cursor is the part filled in by prediction, so there is that much of a cue. With some of the recent enchancements to history search in zsh-4.1.x-dev, it might be possible to have a single keystroke search multiple times and generate a listing of all the possible hits (a bit like the droplist that appears below the Address: bar when auto-completing in IE). I'm not sure how usable that would be in practice, though. Here's the patch I mentioned: Index: Functions/Zle/predict-on =================================================================== --- predict-on 9 Apr 2001 20:14:12 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ predict-on 25 Jan 2003 20:18:23 -0000 @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ ((++CURSOR)) else LBUFFER="$LBUFFER$KEYS" - if [[ $LASTWIDGET == (self-insert|magic-space|backward-delete-char) ]] + if [[ $LASTWIDGET == (self-insert|magic-space|backward-delete-char) || + $LASTWIDGET == (complete-word|accept-*|predict-*) ]] then if ! zle .history-beginning-search-backward then -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net