suffix alias problem

suffix alias problem

[Dieter Faulbaum]

hello,

is it possible that the zsh-mime-setup can use something like this:

zstyle ':mime:.pdf(|.gz):' handler 'evince %s'

because evince can gunzip files "on the fly"?

-- 
Dieter Faulbaum

Re: suffix alias problem

[Peter Stephenson]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:36:55 +0100
Dieter Faulbaum <Dieter.Faulbaum@helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
> is it possible that the zsh-mime-setup can use something like this:
> 
> zstyle ':mime:.pdf(|.gz):' handler 'evince %s'
> 
> because evince can gunzip files "on the fly"?

In principle it ought to be possible to do something like that, or 

zstyle ':mime:.pdf:' handler 'evince %s'
zstyle ':mime:.pdf.gz:' handler 'evince %s'

though the shell doesn't do a search for the longest suffix match at the
moment.  I'll try to remember to look into it.  You'd need to make sure
there is some rule to handle .gz files even so, or set up the suffix
alias by hand, to ensure zsh-mime-handler runs; alias -s
gz=zsh-mime-handler would be good enough.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Re: suffix alias problem

[Dieter Faulbaum]

It ought but doesn't.-)

If I put

zstyle ':mime:.pdf:' handler 'evince %s'
zstyle ':mime:.pdf.gz:' handler 'evince %s'

into my .zshrc (and "source" it) I get:
zsh: permission denied: the-pdf-file

If I use this line

alias -s gz=zsh-mime-handler

I get 

(eval):1: parse error near `&'

in my debian squeeze system with zsh version 4.3.10

--
Dieter Faulbaum