From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4558 invoked from network); 19 May 1997 16:16:34 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 May 1997 16:16:34 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA03647; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:59:47 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:55:15 -0400 (EDT) Sender: gjb@cs.washington.edu To: Scott RoLanD Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: selection highlight References: <19970516191047.23842@rael.s3.com> From: Greg Badros Date: 19 May 1997 08:58:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: Scott RoLanD's message of Fri, 16 May 1997 19:10:47 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.11/Emacs 19.33 Resent-Message-ID: <"A22Tx3.0.Jr.YV7Wp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/860 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Scott RoLanD writes: > I am using zsh 3.0.0 with gjb's patch for colored tab-completion > (thanks gjb!!!) on Solaris using emacs keys... You're welcome. Glad you like it. In case anyone else is looking for this, it's at the patches link off my home page. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb > Playing around with xemacs -nw the other day, I realized that I would > like the same selection highlight that it provides in zsh. > > So, what I want is, when I am editing a command line and hit > control-space to start a selection, as I move around I would like the > selection to be highlighted in reverse-screen. > > Has anyone looked in to this? Anyone want to tackle it, or point me in > the right direction? I don't know of any patches that do this, but ZLE (the zsh line editor) could probably be improved to support the feature without too much work. Check out the Src/zle_*.c files. Greg J. Badros gjb@cs.washington.edu Seattle, WA USA http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb