From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Putting options after tasks
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:31:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg_2Oro98KXQ_-ry4XcA-1zzO32fjeXQbVqaWN7==8SNzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <120314101917.ZM25639@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> _arguments is designed to assume that programs accept all options first
> and all other arguments after them.
Naive question: why? It seems to be a great deal of programs can take
their options at any position nowadays.
> Given that the tasks and options can be freely mixed in this way, I
> presume that none of the options take a following argument (that is,
> "--foobar zoom" never means that "zoom" must appear immediately after
> "--foobar").
No, unfortunately that's not true, only my simplified example gave
that impression. In reality, some of the options can take a following
argument.
> If that's true, then one possibility...
Thank you very much for this, Bart. Since Mikael has reported that it
seems to work going down the _arguments route, I'll have a go at that,
and see if it works also when I expand my example to the real set of
options. I'll report back if I run into trouble.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-14 8:53 Jesper Nygårds
2012-03-14 17:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-15 7:31 ` Jesper Nygårds [this message]
2012-03-14 18:30 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-15 7:33 ` Jesper Nygårds
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