From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 685 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 15:39:02 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Sep 1999 15:39:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 21567 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 1999 15:38:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7757 Received: (qmail 21560 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 15:38:54 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Tanaka Akira" , "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: Option description and _oldlist Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:38:51 +0400 Message-ID: <000501befad9$6abbc390$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > > Use following. > > % compconf group_matches=yes message_format='%d' > description_format='%d' describe_options=yes > Hmm ... bor@itsrm2:/tools/src/ntp-4.0.97f%> zsh -f itsrm2% autoload compinit; compinit itsrm2% compconf group_matches=yes message_format='%d' description_format='%d' d escribe_options=yes itsrm2% xterm -f option -fb -fi -font -fg -fn -foreground As I understand, the description is expected on the status line? When I move from option to option in menu completion? And one more strange thing (assuming the zsh from above): itsrm2% zmodload complist itsrm2% SELECTMIN=0 itsrm2% compconf completer=_oldlist:_complete itsrm2% patch --s ... till you get itsrm2% patch --suffix= option --set-time --set-utc --strip --suffix ENTER -> --suffix is not highlighted TAB -> itsrm2% patch --set-time option TAB -> itsrm2% patch --set-utc option --set-time --set-utc --strip --suffix etc Somewhat strange ... /andrej