From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: completion
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:33:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AD7BF9.2050005@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3QbHjSai-hLzK_uwiYZs+E1BDJk8kfkpr2WgknSsKJwrA@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/07/2015 08:58 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Peter Stephenson
> <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
>>
>> If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on
>> which field some given word will match.
>> Yes, they are ambiguous. The examples probably could do with fixing.
>>
>> With some of the more complicated things you can do, this can actually
>> be hard to work around, I seem to remember.
Thanks Peter, now I know I'm not just too stoopid to understand.
<rant>
"A bit hard to work around"? It is the work of a demented genius,
someone who
has an IQ of 140 and the good sense of an over sexed moose. As Peter
once said (IIRC) there is no obfuscated code contest in zsh because we
really don't need one.
I'd rather learn Klingon than learn about asterisks replacing
separators. How did this get out of the lab? Were there only gods
working on zsh back then? What happens if the last of the gods gets run
over by a bus, and there's no one left on the planet who has any idea
how it works? Is there anywhere else on the planet where this idea of
asterisks replacing some arbitrary number of separators would *not* get
you institutionalized?
<feel better now>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-07 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-10 23:15 completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-10 23:31 ` completion Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-11 0:34 ` completion Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-11 1:17 ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11 5:44 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 16:40 ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11 17:28 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 19:34 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 15:01 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-07 15:28 ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 16:58 ` completion Mikael Magnusson
2015-01-07 17:06 ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 18:33 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
[not found] ` <CAH+w=7Z_B2ghc21QgHxA8FEV7W8uQnjEwtPqK3tL-kjPihjicA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-07 19:54 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 18:48 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 19:24 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:33 ` completion Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-07 20:06 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:51 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 20:15 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 20:42 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 23:00 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08 5:09 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 8:31 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 16:52 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08 0:43 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08 0:57 ` completion ZyX
2015-01-08 1:15 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08 6:03 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 5:26 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 12:36 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10 2:12 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-12 9:09 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-12 16:43 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-13 16:03 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 2:56 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 17:12 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-09 9:37 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10 5:33 ` completion Bart Schaefer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-03 17:44 completion Ray Andrews
2012-12-03 18:31 ` completion Ray Andrews
2007-05-15 15:27 Completion Anonymous bin ich
2007-05-15 16:23 ` Completion Peter Stephenson
2006-02-20 12:54 Completion Etienne Chové
2006-02-20 18:51 ` Completion Clint Adams
2006-02-20 19:47 ` Completion Etienne Chové
2003-12-22 23:15 Completion Seth Kurtzberg
2000-02-22 14:58 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:47 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 15:01 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 11:36 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:24 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 18:01 ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-15 8:42 Completion Claus Alboege
2000-02-21 22:20 ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-22 10:37 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
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