From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5049 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2015 20:36:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19704 Received: (qmail 20653 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2015 20:36:40 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=T/C1EZ6Q c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=E6fFaPzUG/xrW7L/d2wAig==:117 a=E6fFaPzUG/xrW7L/d2wAig==:17 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=X-0QOrTS1ihvz71JsNsA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <54AD91BA.2060408@eastlink.ca> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:06:18 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 To: =?windows-1252?Q?Lawrence_Vel=E1zquez?= Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: completion References: <5488D414.6010300@eastlink.ca> <30453.1418258082@thecus.kiddle.eu> <5488F0AC.2040901@eastlink.ca> <141210214454.ZM12261@torch.brasslantern.com> <5489C8F4.8030703@eastlink.ca> <141211092824.ZM13349@torch.brasslantern.com> <5489F1BC.5000900@eastlink.ca> <20150107150109.GA14088@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> <54AD8803.4020704@eastlink.ca> <0AA84BB7-CC9E-4FD2-9CC6-9C0B90313C03@larryv.me> In-reply-to: <0AA84BB7-CC9E-4FD2-9CC6-9C0B90313C03@larryv.me> On 01/07/2015 11:33 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Ray Andrews wrote: > >> And used as a sort of 'wildcard', that would be fine, *but* >> it shouldn't change the number of separators: >> >> kill ( :Ray:*:*:Montreal:*:*: ) > How is this any better than just having empty fields? > > This might be an issue in an academic sense, and the documentation should certainly be cleared up, but I'd imagine that anyone actually doing this sort of complex matching would write out the empty fields instead of playing games with asterisks. I'm not sure, maybe empty fields could mean something different, I'm just being verbose. All I can say with force is that, however this asterisk thing works, it sure is not obvious. I read two docs several times over and only got more confused. > vq