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boundary="------------CiWCF0QdnNiJSS7Fh0L9Ck6P" Message-id: <7da5aa87-d17f-4f59-91f6-78125917ac97@eastlink.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:09:12 -0800 MIME-version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: completion, sorting of options Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <3focki1mdsq59ji5d0u5nb7qenu6u8brkt@tlc.com> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: X-Seq: 29339 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CiWCF0QdnNiJSS7Fh0L9Ck6P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2023-11-10 06:04, Thomas Lauer wrote: > But what they then > proceeded to do was to have the nosort option sort just a tiny little > bit anyway, for good measure. In my book that's not an unanticipated use > case but questionable design. > > I am an old-fashioned git and think that an option should do what it > says on the tin. Anyway, horse dead, flogging ends here. T One more lash to the dead horse: It's another example of something being 'too helpful'. But it's all water under the bridge now. As Bart says, too dangerous to tinker in the deepest entrails of the code. Still I do dream of zsh 6.0 where old traditions might be questioned, dead code cut out, compatibility with extinct shells no longer worried about, and so on. --------------CiWCF0QdnNiJSS7Fh0L9Ck6P Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


On 2023-11-10 06:04, Thomas Lauer wrote:
But what they then 
proceeded to do was to have the nosort option sort just a tiny little
bit anyway, for good measure. In my book that's not an unanticipated use
case but questionable design.

I am an old-fashioned git and think that an option should do what it
says on the tin.

Anyway, horse dead, flogging ends here. T

One more lash to the dead horse: It's another example of something being 'too helpful'. But it's all water under the bridge now. As Bart says, too dangerous to tinker in the deepest entrails of the code. Still I do dream of zsh 6.0 where old traditions might be questioned, dead code cut out, compatibility with extinct shells no longer worried about, and so on. 


    

  


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