From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1022 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2000 15:42:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Oct 2000 15:42:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 24670 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2000 15:42:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12968 Received: (qmail 24617 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2000 15:41:51 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1001011154121.ZM3487@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:41:21 +0000 References: <200010111217.OAA27801@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <000101c03380$0dfd52f0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <200010111339.PAA27899@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: all completions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Oct 11, 2:17pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } } Here's an improved patch. It gets the string displayed for the } all-matches special match right (as described in 12936) and it has } another style, `avoid-completer' (any suggestions for a better } name?). That gives a list of completer-names for which no all-matches } string should be added. It has what I think is a sensible default } value. What about completers like _list and _menu? What about _ignored? On Oct 11, 4:37pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: } } The word ``matches'' in manual may be a bit misleading but I fail } to suggest better. We actually mean ``completion listing'' that } completion code internally builds. I agree that there's some confusion among the term "matches" for the set of results genereated by completion, "match" in the sense of how the members of that set are selected from a larger set of possibilities, "_match" as a completer, and "matcher" as in the matcher-list style. They're all related, but all subtly different. I can't decide whether it would be better to try to devise separate terms for each, or whether that would just be even more confusing (in the way that "expansion" vs. "substitution" is already confusing in the context of parameters, aliases, etc.). -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net