Re: coproc tutorial (Re: questions)

["Thomas Köhler" <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 12:45:16PM +0200,
Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> Chris Hansen wrote:
> 
> > #!/bin/zsh -i
> > 
> > coproc /usr/bin/nslookup
> > 
> > while true; do
> > 	TEST=">"
> > 	NSLOUT=" "
> > 	while [[ $TEST != $NSLOUT ]] ; do
> > 		print -n $NSLOUT
> > 		read -pk NSLOUT
> > 	done
> > 	read 'QUERY?>'
> > 	print -p $QUERY
> > done
> 
> 3.1.6-pws-something (at least the latest pws-6) has Functions/Misc/nslookup
> which uses `vared' to read the user input, thus allowing command line
> editing. Together with the new completion system this function will
> also give you completion *inside* nslookup (and not only nslookup's
> arguments).

Now this is really cool... how do I enable this? :-)

> To workers: seems like noone found this interesting enough to improve
> the code I hacked up. Maybe sometime we could write a generic function 
> for this task...

Allowing completion from within all stdin/stdout-bound programs?
ncftp -L is a candidate here, amongst others...

> Bye
>  Sven

CU,

Thomas

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