From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: completion
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:54:31 -0800 [thread overview]
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The zstyle feature and its specific application to completion were
developed by a consensus of people on the zsh-workers list at the time,
several of whom are still present (though not the primary author).
The zstyle mechanism in particular was meant to be very general and in fact
knows nothing of separators. It's a flat namespace with some put/test/get
semantics wrapped around it.
The needs of the completion system then led to the creation of an
artificial hierarchy within the flat zstyle namespace. Ranting about *
matching a "separator" colon is like ranting about ellipses skipping over
periods and commas when a paragraph has been abbreviated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-07 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-10 23:15 completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-10 23:31 ` completion Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-11 0:34 ` completion Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-11 1:17 ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11 5:44 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 16:40 ` completion Ray Andrews
2014-12-11 17:28 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2014-12-11 19:34 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 15:01 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-07 15:28 ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 16:58 ` completion Mikael Magnusson
2015-01-07 17:06 ` completion Peter Stephenson
2015-01-07 18:33 ` completion Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <CAH+w=7Z_B2ghc21QgHxA8FEV7W8uQnjEwtPqK3tL-kjPihjicA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-07 19:54 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-01-07 18:48 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 19:24 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:33 ` completion Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-07 20:06 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 19:51 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 20:15 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-07 20:42 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-07 23:00 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08 5:09 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 8:31 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 16:52 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-08 0:43 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08 0:57 ` completion ZyX
2015-01-08 1:15 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-08 6:03 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 5:26 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 12:36 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10 2:12 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-12 9:09 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-12 16:43 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-13 16:03 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 2:56 ` completion Bart Schaefer
2015-01-08 17:12 ` completion Ray Andrews
2015-01-09 9:37 ` completion Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-10 5:33 ` completion Bart Schaefer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-03 17:44 completion Ray Andrews
2012-12-03 18:31 ` completion Ray Andrews
2007-05-15 15:27 Completion Anonymous bin ich
2007-05-15 16:23 ` Completion Peter Stephenson
2006-02-20 12:54 Completion Etienne Chové
2006-02-20 18:51 ` Completion Clint Adams
2006-02-20 19:47 ` Completion Etienne Chové
2003-12-22 23:15 Completion Seth Kurtzberg
2000-02-22 14:58 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:47 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 15:01 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 11:36 Completion Sven Wischnowsky
2000-02-22 14:24 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
2000-02-22 18:01 ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-15 8:42 Completion Claus Alboege
2000-02-21 22:20 ` Completion Bart Schaefer
2000-02-22 10:37 ` Completion Andy Spiegl
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