From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5883 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2000 09:48:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Apr 2000 09:48:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 1670 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2000 09:48:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10805 Received: (qmail 1583 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2000 09:47:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:47:16 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Subject: Re: PATCH: scrolling completion lists (was: Re: Questions) In-reply-to: "Your message of Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:32:45 +0200." <200004180932.LAA19675@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Message-id: <0FT700EBYHUSK8@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > Peter Stephenson wrote: > > > Some other minor comments on scrolling, which I'm not suggesting any > > immediate action on: > > > > - the %l in list-prompt adds some spaces after it, so a message like > > `listing completions at %l, space to scroll' > > looks a little messy > > Right (%m does the same). I was torn in two here... if you have a > select-prompt like > > 'Match %m Line %l %p' > > I think it is nice that the `Line...' doesn't move back and forth when > moving from match number 9 to number 10 or something like that. You could have %M, %L and %P do the current form of alignment, %m, %l and %p not, which would save any extra parsing. -- Peter Stephenson Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070