From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: set extension for =( ) created file
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:14:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKc7PVB4dzK9Kpeco-aXvocr9i569AhOr8n7_AqFH3FDyxSZDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A69FBAB9-747D-450C-8355-990DEB759801@macports.org>
On 24 September 2016 at 21:55, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@macports.org> wrote:
>> On Sep 24, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What vim does is a fancy ignorable thing for some, what other program
>> might do might not be. Extensions are vital parts of file names.
>
> Not really. Any competently written program that cares about the
> structure of its input has some other way of validating said structure,
> like actually parsing it or checking for a file signature / header
> / magic number. Programs that process stdin already have to do this.
Yeah, one of such programs is Vim and it fails recognizing e.g.
ctags/awk.c as ft=zsh.
>> Extension-aware =( ) would be a masterpiece feature for Zsh, though,
>> IMO.
>
> Unless it were implemented using libmagic or something, I would consider
> it a massive waste of time and effort.
What time and effort? I guess it can be a beautiful few lines patch.
Modify name of file? Something like strcat. Parsing clever syntax that
would provide the extension? Also possibly basic.
Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-24 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-24 17:51 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-24 17:55 ` Vadim Zeitlin
2016-09-24 18:43 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-24 19:30 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-24 19:55 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-24 20:14 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2016-09-24 20:36 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-24 20:44 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-24 21:06 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-24 21:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-24 21:58 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-25 0:05 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2016-09-25 5:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-25 6:17 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-25 15:21 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-26 18:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-25 16:58 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2016-09-25 22:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-24 21:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-24 18:56 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-24 18:22 ` Bart Schaefer
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