Re: zle insert problems

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

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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