RE: Predict-on and colored/higlighted predicted text

["Clifford Caoile" <piyokun@email.com>]

Bart Schaefer:

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, I been a bit busy and I haven't been
able to try your suggestions. I'm not sure what to make of that function or
how to use it, actually. But I'll give it a try and get back to you on it.

Thanks again.
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:schaefer@brasslantern.com]
| Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:55
| To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
| Subject: Re: Predict-on and colored/higlighted predicted text
|
|
| I wrote:
|
| } Unfortunately the zsh line editor does not provide a way to insert
| } into the command line any characters that are not actually part of the
| } command. [...] So without some fairly large changes to ZLE, colorizing
| } parts of the command is not possible.
|
| I was thinking about this, and it turns out it's not *quite* impossible,
| but it does depend on redrawing behavior; so I'm not sure it will always
| work, and it'd be really unpleasant over a slow connection.
|
| Here's a small function that shows how to do it.  It highlights from the
| cursor position to the end of the line, but it wouldn't be hard to
| adapt to highlight any given section.
|
| function hilite {
|   setopt localoptions promptpercent
|   local rbuffer="$RBUFFER"
|   RBUFFER=""				# Truncate the buffer
|   zle -R				# Redraw that much
|   print -nP %U				# Begin highlight
|   RBUFFER="$rbuffer"			# Restore the buffer
|   zle -R				# Redraw the rest
|   print -nP %u				# End highlight
| }
|
| However, as soon as you begin to edit the line, all bets are off as to
| where the highlight remains (or doesn't).
| __________
|
| In that same message, I also wrote:
|
| } ... perhaps try these settings:
|
| I failed to cut'n'paste one that should have been included, to disable
| menu selection when autocompleting.  If you don't have menu selection
| enabled, you don't need this.
|
| zstyle ':completion:predict:*' menu yes
|
| There's probably a more clever setting of that for zsh-4.1.x-dev now
| that menu selection has "interactive mode", but I haven't worked out
| what it is.
|
| --
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