From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22973 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 16:45:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 16:45:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 11357 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2003 16:43:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5827 Received: (qmail 11345 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 16:43:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 16:43:20 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [143.90.131.180] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 16:43:19 -0000 Received: from rabi ([211.131.79.157]) by t-mta2.odn.ne.jp with SMTP id <20030125164319248.QLII.24063.t-mta2.odn.ne.jp@mta2.odn.ne.jp> for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:43:19 +0900 From: "Clifford Caoile" To: Subject: Predict-on and colored/higlighted predicted text Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:43:19 +0900 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Dear zsh-users: Hello, first time for me to reach out to the zsh community. Thanks for zsh shell! I have been exploring the 4.0.x functionality called "predict-on" and "predict-off". It has been both a gee-wiz and a oh-darn experience, meaning that I've be amazed and disappointed by zsh's history-based prediction. I like it! I also hate it when it gets in the way! Oh well. Also it reminds me of recent capabilities found in Windows such as auto complete in Internet Explorer and Visual Studio 6. Since zsh is a text-based program and doesn't have the luxury of popping up a graphically overlaid text list widget like a graphical program, I was wondering how far this prediction can be graphically enhanced? Would it be possible to color code or highlight or underscore the part of the line that is filled in by prediction? Something like: cursor is here | v % rsync -azvP -e ssh myhost:ive/done/this/before/ localcopy/ ------------------------------------- ^ | something graphical reminds you of | prediction text, like a underscore? Comments? Would you think this would be useful? I've searched the archives for predict color but nothing comes up. --- ,-~-. < ^ ; ~, (_ _, Clifford Escobar CAOILE (aka "Piyo-kun") J~~> _.___...:.__..__.: __.:_. .:_.__::_..:._::._... _____ p(^_^)q