From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19915 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2002 15:11:23 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Apr 2002 15:11:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4482 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2002 15:11:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4804 Received: (qmail 4442 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2002 15:11:07 -0000 From: Sven Wischnowsky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15531.6999.630742.919771@wischnow.berkom.de> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:10:15 +0200 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh's answer to the bash completion fm project In-Reply-To: <20020403145840.GB13145@io.com> References: <20020403110500.GA13869@io.com> <20020403122431.GD22084@picard.franken.de> <20020403145840.GB13145@io.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.5 (patch 3) "asparagus" XEmacs Lucid John Buttery wrote: > I know, but I've found that when you give people an avenue to > contribute their own, one Lego at a time, you can often wind up with > something pretty amazing in the end (sort of like Open Source in general > :). Perhaps any output from this hypothetical project could be folded > into zsh's stock configuration periodically, at which point we would > zero our config files and start over. > I've played around a lot with zsh's preloaded functions, and they are > certainly very extensive, but there's always more stuff to do. The > example that pops to mind is a compctl "recipe" that allows dd to do > filename completion on arguments that start with (for example) "if=" and > "of=". Ah, I see, sorry I didn't understand you. Well, anyone on this and all neighbouring planets are invited to share their functions with us anyway, and several people not on the -workers list have done that in the past. If you have the time to start a project so that we get even more completion functions or improvements for completion functions as input, we'd all be glad and you'll almost certainly get any support from the -workers list we can give. I'm not quite sure how support for zstyle would look like, though, because that's so user-dependent, but a list of things people can just copy and paste into their init files might already be of great value, I think. And as for compctl: I don't plan to give it any support anymore and don't care if others do. There is still that file with several compctls in the distribution as a starting point. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@berkom.de