From: "Adam R. Paul" <adamp@sco.com>
To: zsh <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: multiple background jobs of the same program
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:28:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970914102839.45957@sco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9709140326.AA21133@cryptica.UCSD.EDU>; from Jose Unpingco on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 08:26:46PM -0700
It would appear that on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 08:26:46PM -0700, Jose Unpingco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I often have multiple vi edit sessions going. When I do the completion
> for fg (fg -j -P % +) that shuffles through the list of jobs, I only
> get the name of the program, i.e. vi, which is not very helpful since
> there are multiple vi sessions going. One way around this is to refer
> to the jobs using the job number.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions? I'd really like to use the completion
> for fg more productively.
I've often wanted the same thing - I just cooked up a compctl that _almost_
works:
setopt interactive_comments
listjobs() {
jobs > /tmp/._zshjobcomp.$$ 2>&1
set -A reply
OIFS="$IFS"
IFS='
'
reply=( $(sed -e '{
s/.\(....\).............\(.*\)/\1 # \2/g
s/\]//g
s/ */ /g
}' /tmp/._zshjobcomp.$$) )
IFS="$OIFS"
}
compctl -P % -K listjobs fg
The only problem is that zsh is escaping the spaces & #'s that result from
the completion, which looks really ugly. Also, I don't really want
interactive_comments set all the time - just for this completion, but I
haven't thought of any way to do this (yet:)
Any improvements? I suspect that the sed bit could be replaced by some neato
zsh internal parameter mangling stuff, but I confess I am not terribly handy
with most of the zsh-specific parameter expansion/substitution features.
_Adam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-14 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-14 3:26 Jose Unpingco
1997-09-14 17:28 ` Adam R. Paul [this message]
1997-09-14 19:10 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-09-14 22:05 ` Adam R. Paul
1997-09-14 23:09 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-09-15 3:02 ` Adam R. Paul
[not found] ` <5len6q9692.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu>
[not found] ` <5ld8ma95sf.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu>
1997-09-15 14:56 ` Bart Schaefer
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