zle insert problems

zle insert problems

[Pascal Wittmann]

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Hi,

I'm trying to build something like this:

	function do-something() {
		zle beginning-of-line
		zle -U "something"
		zle end-of-line
	}
	zle -N do-something
	bindkey "^[i]" do-something

I assumed the commands are executed sequentially if I press M-i. In fact
they are but the strings given to "zle -U" are written after the current
widget is executed. So the result is:

	% this is a test

	pressing M-i

	% this is a testsomething

Is there a way to flush this data earlier to get a result like:


	% sometingthis is a test

Or is my approach totaly wrong? (This is the first time I use zle)


Thanks in advance
Pascal


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Re: zle insert problems

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 2 August 2011 16:20, Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build something like this:
>
>        function do-something() {
>                zle beginning-of-line
>                zle -U "something"
>                zle end-of-line
>        }
>        zle -N do-something
>        bindkey "^[i]" do-something

You can modify the buffer directly via the BUFFER variable, so you
could just say BUFFER="something $BUFFER" and it should do what you
want. buffer.

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Re: zle insert problems

[Pascal Wittmann]

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On 08/02/2011 04:34 PM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 2 August 2011 16:20, Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build something like this:
>>
>>        function do-something() {
>>                zle beginning-of-line
>>                zle -U "something"
>>                zle end-of-line
>>        }
>>        zle -N do-something
>>        bindkey "^[i]" do-something
> 
> You can modify the buffer directly via the BUFFER variable, so you
> could just say BUFFER="something $BUFFER" and it should do what you
> want. buffer.
> 

Ok, that would work in this simple example. But actually I want to do
some more stuff (the code above was just a minimal working example),
here is the function:

 9 replace-pacman-command() {
10   if [[ $LBUFFER = "pacman"* ]]; then
11      zle beginning-of-line
12      zle forward-word
13      zle delete-word
14      zle -U -- $@
15      zle end-of-line
16   fi
17 }
18
19 replace-pacman-command-insert() {
20   replace-pacman-command "-S"
21 }
22
23 zle -N replace-pacman-command-insert
24 bindkey "^[i" replace-pacman-command-insert


I think doing this directly via BUFFER gets quickly unreadable.


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Re: zle insert problems

[Manuel Presnitz]

> I think doing this directly via BUFFER gets quickly unreadable.

What about that?!

replace-pacman-command() {
if [[ $LBUFFER = "pacman"* ]]; then
    LBUFFER="$@ ${${(z)LBUFFER}[2,-1]}"
fi
}

${${(z)LBUFFER}[2,-1]} takes everything but the first shell word of $LBUFFER.

Greets,
Manuel.

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Re: zle insert problems

[Jérémie Roquet]

2011/8/2 Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann@gmx.net>:
>  9 replace-pacman-command() {
> 10   if [[ $LBUFFER = "pacman"* ]]; then
> 11      zle beginning-of-line
> 12      zle forward-word
> 13      zle delete-word
> 14      zle -U -- $@
> 15      zle end-of-line
> 16   fi
> 17 }
> 18
> 19 replace-pacman-command-insert() {
> 20   replace-pacman-command "-S"
> 21 }
> 22
> 23 zle -N replace-pacman-command-insert
> 24 bindkey "^[i" replace-pacman-command-insert
>
> I think doing this directly via BUFFER gets quickly unreadable.

replace-pacman-command() {
  BUFFER=${BUFFER/pacman [-a-zA-Z]#/pacman $@}
}

?

Best regards,

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Re: zle insert problems

[Manuel Presnitz]

Sorry, "delete-word" deletes the following word, so:

LBUFFER="${${(z)LBUFFER}[1]} $@ ${${(z)LBUFFER}[3,-1]}"

Ok, not so nice anymore...
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Re: zle insert problems

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:55:46 +0200
Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann@gmx.net> wrote:
> Ok, that would work in this simple example. But actually I want to do
> some more stuff (the code above was just a minimal working example),
> here is the function:
> 
>  9 replace-pacman-command() {
> 10   if [[ $LBUFFER = "pacman"* ]]; then
> 11      zle beginning-of-line
> 12      zle forward-word
> 13      zle delete-word
> 14      zle -U -- $@
> 15      zle end-of-line
> 16   fi
> 17 }
> 18
> 19 replace-pacman-command-insert() {
> 20   replace-pacman-command "-S"
> 21 }
> 22
> 23 zle -N replace-pacman-command-insert
> 24 bindkey "^[i" replace-pacman-command-insert

To back up Mikael and answer your original question: yes, you're doing
this the wrong way.  The commands you're executing move the cursor and
edit the buffer as for user interaction, which will be painful because
actually there is no user interaction.  All you're trying to do is edit
the text in the buffer, without intervention from the user.  So you're
much better off operating on BUFFER or equivalent, where instead of a
sequence of operations you can encode the whole operation in patterns,
in fact one pattern.  This does require you to know a bit about zsh
patterns, but the following should be enough to get you going.

I'm not sure why you need this only to work when the first word is
"pacman", given the user is initiating this explicitly so should be able
to decide whether they want the word replaced, but to follow what you're
doing...  I'm assuming you have a recent version of zsh (any version of
4.3 within the last few years is certainly OK).

replace-pacman-command() {
   # Ensure extended globbing is on.
   emulate -L zsh
   setopt extendedglob
   # The variables used by the extendeglob (#b) matching option.
   local -a match mbegin mend
   # Match the line in three parts.
   # - "pacman" plus any characters not part of a word.
   # - Any set of characters that are part of the word.
   # - The rest
   # You could replace "pacman" with [[:WORD:]]## which matches
   # any number of word charaters at this point.
   # Translation:
   # (#b) - turn on match references ("backreferences").
   # (....) - each of these now produces a word in the match array
   # [[:WORD:]] - Any character that can be in a word.  This
   #              bit won't work in zsh 4.2, but you can make something up.
   # [[:WORD:]]## - Same, with as may repetitions as will match, but at
   #                least one occurrence.
   # [^[:WORD:]] - Any character that can't be in a word
   if [[ $BUFFER = (#b)("pacman"[^[:WORD:]]##)([[:WORD:]]##)(*) ]]; then
      # Replace the middle part, keeping the rest.
      BUFFER="${match[1]}$1${match[3]}"
   fi
   # Always put the cursor at the end of the line.
   # (Not actually needed for the rest of the logic to work.)
   zle end-of-line
}

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Re: zle insert problems

[Pascal Wittmann]

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On 08/02/2011 05:09 PM, Jérémie Roquet wrote:
> replace-pacman-command() {
>   BUFFER=${BUFFER/pacman [-a-zA-Z]#/pacman $@}
> }
> 

Thanks, this is quite readable!

I'll take this solution but just to have a explicit no: There is no way
doing this only via zle?


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Re: zle insert problems

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:28:10 +0200
Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 05:09 PM, Jérémie Roquet wrote:
> > replace-pacman-command() {
> >   BUFFER=${BUFFER/pacman [-a-zA-Z]#/pacman $@}
> > }
> > 
> 
> Thanks, this is quite readable!
> 
> I'll take this solution but just to have a explicit no: There is no way
> doing this only via zle?

That's not really a meaningful question.  It's not possible to do it via
zle *commands*, no, but the whole point of having the zle variables is
some things are best done that way rather than by commands.  In other
words, what you were trying to do as a zle command to insert a string
at the cursor position is actually written as:

LBUFFER+="string"

This is still using zle; it's basically equivalent to the non-existent
command

zle insert-string "string"

but much more flexible.

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Re: zle insert problems

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 2,  5:28pm, Pascal Wittmann wrote:
} 
} I'll take this solution but just to have a explicit no: There is no way
} doing this only via zle?

I'm going to disagree with PWS a little here (horrors!) and assert that
it's OK to use zle commands to emulate user interactions in the case
where you want to precisely mimic a command's behavior.  For example
it's much easier to do

    zle vi-backward-word

than it is to analyze $LBUFFER to figure out where that cursor motion
would have left you.  The whole set of widget actions isn't flushed to
the screen until the widget finishes or something like "zle -R" is
run, so it's not as if the user sees the cursor jumping about.

This is particularly true if you're working with multi-line buffers
or want to move up and down in the history.

Also you can mix zle actions with direct assignments to the various
control parameters.  So your original example could be written

    do-something() {
      CURSOR=0
      LBUFFER="something"
      zle end-of-line
    }

Thus, similarly,

    replace-pacman-command() {
      if [[ $LBUFFER = "pacman"* ]]; then
	 CURSOR=0
	 zle forward-word
	 zle delete-word
	 LBUFFER+="$*"
         zle end-of-line
      fi
    }

Another reason for using zle commands is that they properly maintain
the relative positions of $MARK and $CURSOR, which get lost when you
modify LBUFFER directly.  However, there isn't a zle command to insert
arbitrary characters.

Re: zle insert problems

[Pascal Wittmann]

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On 08/02/2011 06:45 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Aug 2,  5:28pm, Pascal Wittmann wrote:
> } 
> } I'll take this solution but just to have a explicit no: There is no way
> } doing this only via zle?
> 
> […]
> 
> Another reason for using zle commands is that they properly maintain
> the relative positions of $MARK and $CURSOR, which get lost when you
> modify LBUFFER directly.  However, there isn't a zle command to insert
> arbitrary characters.

Thank you for this enlightening post!


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