* Re: new menu selection and Re: New compinstall and bindkey
@ 1999-06-29 14:09 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-06-29 14:20 ` Is current widget system suitable? " Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Sven Wischnowsky @ 1999-06-29 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> I've now looked at the new selection for menu completion. Firstly,
> thanks Sven: it's great. There is one thing I don't like. When I move
> the cursors to highlight the string I want to complete to and press
> return, the highlighting is removed but menu-completion continues so if
> I press tab again, it cycles through the selections as opposed to
> accepting my selection and going on to complete whatever is next.
This once was intentional, when menu-select was intended as a
menu-completion add-on. Now that it is more of a replacement we should
probably change this. Since I don't use it that much, I'll have to
ask: do all of you agree that it should be changed?
If we change it we should probably give another widget a special
meaning in menu-select so that we have one for the current behaviour
and one for `leave menu-selection and accept the current match'. With
that users could do a `bindkey -M menuselect ...' to get their
prefered behavior. So: any suggestions for which widget we should use?
(Remember that one couldn't use this widget to leave menu-select,
then.) And what should be the default?
> I also have problems with an aixterm where the next item on the left is
> highlighted in addition to the one on the right in some circumstances.
Hm. Never seen this, so I can't help here (we don't have AIXes here).
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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* Is current widget system suitable? RE: new menu selection and Re: New compinstall and bindkey
1999-06-29 14:09 new menu selection and Re: New compinstall and bindkey Sven Wischnowsky
@ 1999-06-29 14:20 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 1999-06-29 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Wischnowsky, zsh-workers
> If we change it we should probably give another widget a special
> meaning in menu-select so that we have one for the current behaviour
> and one for `leave menu-selection and accept the current match'. With
> that users could do a `bindkey -M menuselect ...' to get their
> prefered behavior. So: any suggestions for which widget we should use?
> (Remember that one couldn't use this widget to leave menu-select,
> then.) And what should be the default?
>
I wanted to write about this anyway. Unfortunately, current widget system is not
well suited for programming (in user-defined widgets). Currently widgets mostly
are "high-level" ones, that do fairly complex tasks. That was fine when all
widgets were builtin ones. But now more of a low-level, primitive widgets are
needed - that do some well defined atomic action. Good example is completion.
What is needed is probably such primitives as next-match, previous-match,
insert-match, exit-menu etc. Using these most of other tasks could be easily
porgrammed with user-defined widgets - and if some prove universally useful,
they could be implemented as builtin.
This assumes, that user-defined widgets work. As my recent example shows, not
quite :-)
/andrej
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