From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Zsh Rosetta Stone / ExplainShell equivalent
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 05:22:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211201052247.GC26421@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP9c5mEcn8z_sFLuvbzTUTqWEeATGcunVyOj=WXBC6rEmjWQw@mail.gmail.com>
Zach Riggle wrote on Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 20:58:52 -0600:
> $ ls -la *(.Dmm-3)
⋮
> Is there any interest in something like ExplainShell or ShellCheck for
> Zsh? I'm not sure what tools are best fit for parsing things like
> complicated expressions.
Truncating the command line after each character and doing headless
completions (https://github.com/Valodim/zsh-capture-completion) might be
a good start.
For --options to builtins you could potentially make it a lot smarter by
looking in the manual sources. Given «foo -x», jump to the
[a-z]index(foo) line, then show either the «item(tt(-x))», if there is
one, or the output of a sentence-wise grep for «tt(-x)» (taking the
parentheses as literals).
As to your question, you might've gotten better answers if you'd given
a self-contained description (or at least examples) of the proposed
functionality.
Cheers,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-01 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-24 2:58 Zach Riggle
2021-12-01 5:22 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2021-12-01 17:26 ` zzapper
2021-12-01 18:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-12-01 18:52 ` david rayner
2021-12-01 19:38 ` Daniel Shahaf
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