From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 09:26:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220902092640.GJ5920@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220831092831.GA992100@zira.vinc17.org>
Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:28:31 +0200:
> On 2022-08-28 18:29:27 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Ray Andrews wrote on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:59 +00:00:
> > >> Sounds like you need a test suite for your zshrc.
> > > Sometimes it's a guess what some change might do, one does not even
> > > know what to expect. Particularly the 'completion' stuff is baffling.
> > > Here's mine, it sorta works but I despair at understanding the syntax:
> >
> > zstyle has been explained multiple times in the past so you might want
> > to look those up and ask about parts that are unclear to you.
> >
> > In short, «zstyle ':foo:bar:*:baz' key v1 v2» translates as "When
> > library foo asks for the value of key in a situation of the form
> > bar:*:baz, tell it the answer is «v1 v2»".
>
> Perhaps there should be a zsh function that translates a zstyle line
> to plain English. :-)
What do you have in mind, exactly? It'd be pretty easy to write
something that, say, runs «zstyle -L» and applies the sh-to-English
mechanical transformation I did above. That's just a compiler…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-02 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-27 4:30 Felipe Contreras
2022-08-27 16:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-27 19:32 ` Vincent Bernat
2022-08-27 20:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-08-27 23:53 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 7:53 ` zzapper
2022-08-28 10:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-28 13:59 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 18:29 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-31 9:28 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-08-31 14:17 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-01 21:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 1:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 1:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 1:49 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 5:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 7:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 10:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 14:26 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-04 7:13 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-04 16:30 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-02 10:39 ` [PATCH] zstyle: Correct and expand docs (was: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge) Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 15:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-04 6:51 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 13:55 ` Most minimal configuration challenge Ray Andrews
2022-09-04 7:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-04 16:34 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-02 13:32 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-04 7:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 9:53 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 9:26 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2022-09-02 14:44 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-09-04 6:42 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-05 9:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-09-12 8:59 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-28 18:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-08-28 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-08-28 19:35 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 18:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 1:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
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