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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Cc: Keijiro Ehara <popo@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
Subject: Re: How to complete backquote, etc. using compsys?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:36:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8B6600.54A33D8E@yahoo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010823180146.ZM25810@candle.brasslantern.com>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
> On Aug 23, 10:49am, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> }
> } No, you didn't miss an option. The new completion system just doesn't
> } complete the backquote.  [...]  At the moment, I don't think the shell
> } code can tell if it is in $( .. )
> 
> Yes, it can tell that it's in $(...) or `...`.

compstate[quote] and compstate[quoting] indicate if it is in `...` but
how can it tell it's in $(...)? The level of nesting would also be
useful.

> It doesn't complete the
> trailing backtick or closing paren because there's no way to tell when
> you're really at the end of the expression.  How is it supposed to know
> whether you mean
>     `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
> or whether you're going to go on with more of the command, as in
>     `cat /var/run/inetd.pid /var/run/sshd.pid`
> or the like?

That's true but it would be useful to have the backquote as a removable
suffix because it is quicker to press space than backquote. A style
could always be used to prevent it. Also, without multios the closing
bracket of $(<...) should always be completed.

Oliver

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-08-28  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-21 20:41 Keijiro Ehara
2001-08-23  9:49 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-08-23 18:01   ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-28  9:36     ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]

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