From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10556 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 13:14:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Sep 1999 13:14:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 3943 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 1999 13:14:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7743 Received: (qmail 3934 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 13:13:59 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: Silly questions about _arguments & Co (and probably bugs) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:13:52 +0400 Message-ID: <001101befac5$29ae4260$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" 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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Forgive me, but I recently had no time to follow all discussions and do not quite understand the manual description. 1. When are the description of arguments actually printed? I tried some basic commands like xterm or patch but descriptions do not seem to be printed. 2. Looks, like `-s' is overloaded - it is used both for "single letter options" and for "option aliases" (from _long_options). I believe, this is the reason why option aliases do not work any more :-) E.g. ntpd configure lists only --enable variant - and now no --disable counterparts are recognised. 3. I cannot make completion for patch work. As simple as `patch --sTAB' just beeps. 4. `patch -pTAB' gives me `patch -p0 ' - but `0' is not autoremoved if I enter different number (I'd expect it to be). 5. `patch TAB' does not list most of the long options at all. Actually, it is interesting case - if a command has both long and short form - which one should be preferred? I'd like to have short option only if no corresponding short one exists. TIA /andrej