Re: Caching variables during completion

[Jan Eike von Seggern <jan.eike.von.seggern@desy.de>]

Thanks a lot Bart and Peter!

Using HISTNO should be working.

BTW: I played around with _store_cache/_retrieve_cache but I could not 
get it working because I didn't now how to retrieve an associated array 
from the cache (not to mention that it's not fitting my need anyways).

Best
Eike


On 02/14/2013 01:39 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 13,  8:30pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> } > zstyle ':completion:*' completer _xrcache _oldlist _expand _complete # etc.
> }
> } I don't see why you couldn't put that inside the completion function
> } that needs the cache
>
> True, you could put it in the completion function, but what if there's
> more than one completion function that wants to share the same cache?
>
> Which reminds me that I've never really bothered to understand how the
> _store_cache/_retrieve_cache stuff is supposed to work.  I suspect it
> would be overkill here.
>