compinit/compdef useful outside of completion?

compinit/compdef useful outside of completion?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

Don't you think, that these can be used not only with completion widgets? I
actually like the idea, when I just need to drop a file in defined place and it
will automatically be used next time I start shell. No more .zshrc editing etc.

What I mean, does it make sense to extend compinit/compdef to handle "normal"
user defined widgets as well ('course, the names will probably be too misleading
...). E.g. 'compdef -w widget function' to define normal widget. You could even
automatically bind it to key sequence with additional parameter ... say "-k
^Xn"?
And start function with '#compdef -w <widget>'

Comments?

/andrej

Re: compinit/compdef useful outside of completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> Don't you think, that these can be used not only with completion widgets? I
> actually like the idea, when I just need to drop a file in defined place and it
> will automatically be used next time I start shell. No more .zshrc editing etc.
> 
> What I mean, does it make sense to extend compinit/compdef to handle "normal"
> user defined widgets as well ('course, the names will probably be too misleading
> ...). E.g. 'compdef -w widget function' to define normal widget. You could even
> automatically bind it to key sequence with additional parameter ... say "-k
> ^Xn"?
> And start function with '#compdef -w <widget>'

I've been thinking about this, too. Some kind of autoauto-functions
with arguments describing the tags to expect and what to do with
them. Or some external configuration and then cal autoauto or
whatever. (Heck, haven't I mentioned that yet? I thought I had, but
maybe I've been only thinking too much about it.)

This is even more interesting if we once get into heavy widget-hacking.

What I'm currently thinking about is how we could generalise the
dumping code and integrate it with a generic autoauto function.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de