completion and history

completion and history

[Jimmy Mäkelä]

I have got this compctl to unzip files into a directory based on their name,
but i would like to know of a cleaner way to do this, especially the
function. How would i for example do if i wanted to be able to add a -dNAME
for each of the arguments before the current on the commandline like:
unzip 1.zip 2.zip 3.zip <TAB> gives:
unzip 1.zip 2.zip 3.zip -d1 -d2 -d3

--------CUT-----------
compctl -x 'p[1]' -g '*.(zip|ZIP)' - 'p[2]' -K compzip -- unzip

>From the compzip function:
read -c z
z=`echo $z|awk '{print $2}'|awk -F . '{print $1}'`
reply=("-d$z")
return
----------------------

And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:

% grep HIST .zshrc
HISTSIZE=200
HISTFILE=.zshistory

% ls -o .zshistory
-rw-------   1 jmy             0 Feb 23 20:16 .zshistory

% grep setopt .zshrc|grep hist
setopt   correctall autocd longlistjobs nobeep automenu appendhistory
setopt   autoresume histignoredups pushdsilent noclobber

Re: completion and history

[Mircea Damian]

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 09:12:09PM +0100, Jimmy Mäkelä wrote:
> And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
> 
> % grep HIST .zshrc
> HISTSIZE=200
> HISTFILE=.zshistory
> 
> % ls -o .zshistory
> -rw-------   1 jmy             0 Feb 23 20:16 .zshistory
> 
> % grep setopt .zshrc|grep hist
> setopt   correctall autocd longlistjobs nobeep automenu appendhistory
> setopt   autoresume histignoredups pushdsilent noclobber

I do have the same problem(?) with history.
I'm using zsh 3.0.5.

setopt appendhistory nobgnice correctall extendedhistory histnostore listtypes
setopt setopt histignoredups histignorespace nobeep autocd autolist nonomatch


Question:
 How do I make TAB to work in the same way that it does in bash? (2x<TAB>
gives a list of possible completions)

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Re: completion and history

[Geoff Wing]

Mircea Damian <dmircea@mail.kappa.ro> typed:
:On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 09:12:09PM +0100, Jimmy Mäkelä wrote:
:> And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
:> % grep HIST .zshrc
:> HISTSIZE=200
:> HISTFILE=.zshistory
:> % ls -o .zshistory
:> -rw-------   1 jmy             0 Feb 23 20:16 .zshistory
:> % grep setopt .zshrc|grep hist
:> setopt   correctall autocd longlistjobs nobeep automenu appendhistory
:> setopt   autoresume histignoredups pushdsilent noclobber
:I do have the same problem(?) with history.
:I'm using zsh 3.0.5.
:setopt appendhistory nobgnice correctall extendedhistory histnostore listtypes
:setopt setopt histignoredups histignorespace nobeep autocd autolist nonomatch

Use a pathname when you initialise HISTFILE: ``HISTFILE=~/.zhistory''

:Question:
: How do I make TAB to work in the same way that it does in bash? (2x<TAB>
:gives a list of possible completions)

RTFM, zsh_options.  Look for AUTO_MENU and MENU_COMPLETE
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history file reset to 0

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 08:53:48 +0200, Mircea Damian wrote:
> I do have the same problem(?) with history.
> I'm using zsh 3.0.5.

Me too. Sometimes, when I logout, the history file is reset to 0.
I have:

HISTFILE=$HOME/.zhistory
HISTSIZE=2000
SAVEHIST=2000

It seems to be a problem with the locking mechanism.

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Re: completion and history

[Geoff Wing]

Jimmy Mäkelä <jmy@flashback.net> typed:
:I have got this compctl to unzip files into a directory based on their name,
:but i would like to know of a cleaner way to do this, especially the
:function. How would i for example do if i wanted to be able to add a -dNAME
:for each of the arguments before the current on the commandline like:
:unzip 1.zip 2.zip 3.zip <TAB> gives:
:unzip 1.zip 2.zip 3.zip -d1 -d2 -d3

Umm, you've got a funny version of unzip if you can specify more than one
archive.  Can it?  Also, your compzip function doesn't need to run any
other commands:

compzip() {
	local a b
	read -c a
	b=(${=a})
	reply=("-d${b[2]:r}")
}

:--------CUT-----------
:compctl -x 'p[1]' -g '*.(zip|ZIP)' - 'p[2]' -K compzip -- unzip
:
:From the compzip function:
:read -c z
:z=`echo $z|awk '{print $2}'|awk -F . '{print $1}'`
:reply=("-d$z")
:return
:----------------------
:
:And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
:% grep HIST .zshrc
:HISTSIZE=200
:HISTFILE=.zshistory

HISTFILE=~/.zshistory
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Re: completion and history

[Jimmy Mäkelä]

On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 08:42:05AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Umm, you've got a funny version of unzip if you can specify more than one
> archive.  Can it?  Also, your compzip function doesn't need to run any
> other commands:

no..i just wanted to know how i would have done _if_ it could :)

> compzip() {
> 	local a b
> 	read -c a
> 	b=(${=a})
> 	reply=("-d${b[2]:r}")
> }

thanks.

Re: completion and history

[Peter Stephenson]

> And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
> 
> % grep HIST .zshrc
> HISTSIZE=200
> HISTFILE=.zshistory

What you also need and hasn't yet been mentioned is to set SAVEHIST.
HISTSIZE specifies the size of the history that will be kept within
the shell, SAVEHIST the size that will be saved --- in your case
probably 0.  SAVEHIST=200 would be a good bet.

I feel another FAQ entry coming on.

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Re: completion and history

[Mircea Damian]

On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 09:56:56AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
> > 
> > % grep HIST .zshrc
> > HISTSIZE=200
> > HISTFILE=.zshistory
> 
> What you also need and hasn't yet been mentioned is to set SAVEHIST.
> HISTSIZE specifies the size of the history that will be kept within
> the shell, SAVEHIST the size that will be saved --- in your case
> probably 0.  SAVEHIST=200 would be a good bet.
> 
> I feel another FAQ entry coming on.

Yes you're right... As a new user I was puzzled. I think that a default
value of 30-50 entries would be better than an uninitialized variable.

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