From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Is this an orthodox use of zstyle?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:00:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015190004.GD1274@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031015151521.ZM23749@candle.brasslantern.com>
Hi Bart :)
* Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> } A last point: maybe I'm missing something, but I think that the
> } entire zstyle thing can be done with parameters (with exception of
> } the -e option, maybe).
> Yes, you could write "zstyle" as a shell function. There are a number
> of parts of the completion system that could be written as functions,
> but that were coded (or re-coded) in C for speed.
I'm not going to do that, anyway ;)) I was just guessing. The
fact is that although you can implement a bunch of builtins as shell
code, it's usually faster, safer, etc... to write them in C.
> there's something else you could use to store state, by the way.
> Even slower than styles, but sharable across multiple shells.
What's that? ;))
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-14 16:00 DervishD
2003-10-14 16:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-14 17:17 ` DervishD
2003-10-15 6:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-15 9:54 ` DervishD
2003-10-15 15:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-15 19:00 ` DervishD [this message]
2003-10-16 14:40 ` Bart Schaefer
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