* Examples in _arguments description
@ 2000-05-03 7:07 Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 2000-05-03 7:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The following paragraph looks strange:
Every spec may also contain a list of option names and argument
numbers with which the option or argument described is mutually
exclusive. Such a list is given in parentheses at the
beginning, as in `(-two -three 1)-one:...' or `(-foo):...'. In
the first example, the options `-two' and `-three' and the
first argument will not be offered as possible completions if
the option `-one' is on the line before the cursor. Also, the
list may contain a single star as one of its elements to
specify that the description for the rest arguments should not
be used and it may contain a colon to specify that the
descriptions for all normal (non-option-) arguments should not
be used.
The second example `(-foo):...' is not mentioned anywhere and looks a
bit strange anyway.
-andrej
Have a nice DOS!
B >>
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* RE: Examples in _arguments description
2000-05-03 7:12 Sven Wischnowsky
@ 2000-05-03 7:19 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 2000-05-03 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Wischnowsky, zsh-workers
> >
> > The second example `(-foo):...' is not mentioned anywhere
> and looks a
> > bit strange anyway.
>
> What do you mean by `not mentioned anywhere'? It's described
> immediately before that: `with which the option *or argument* ...'.
>
> And why does it look `strange'? (At least not stranger than other
> things I've written ;-)
>
Erm ... granted. The problem is, you give two examples immediately
followed by "In the first example ..." - and reader expects then "In the
second example ...". And the whole paragraph stresses the _options_ case
just casually mentioning _arguments_ (hence my confusion). So I suggest
adding something like "In the second example the argument (which one?)
won't be offered if option -foo is present"
-andrej
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* Re: Examples in _arguments description
@ 2000-05-03 7:12 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-05-03 7:19 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Sven Wischnowsky @ 2000-05-03 7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> The following paragraph looks strange:
>
> Every spec may also contain a list of option names and argument
> numbers with which the option or argument described is mutually
> exclusive. Such a list is given in parentheses at the
> beginning, as in `(-two -three 1)-one:...' or `(-foo):...'. In
> the first example, the options `-two' and `-three' and the
> first argument will not be offered as possible completions if
> the option `-one' is on the line before the cursor. Also, the
> list may contain a single star as one of its elements to
> specify that the description for the rest arguments should not
> be used and it may contain a colon to specify that the
> descriptions for all normal (non-option-) arguments should not
> be used.
>
> The second example `(-foo):...' is not mentioned anywhere and looks a
> bit strange anyway.
What do you mean by `not mentioned anywhere'? It's described
immediately before that: `with which the option *or argument* ...'.
And why does it look `strange'? (At least not stranger than other
things I've written ;-)
Bye
Sven
--
Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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