From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18536 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2001 07:39:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Aug 2001 07:39:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 17254 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2001 07:39:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15555 Received: (qmail 17239 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2001 07:39:18 -0000 From: Bart Schaefer Message-Id: <1010801073909.ZM324@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:39:09 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20010801065937.52572.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com> Comments: In reply to Felix Rosencrantz "XML version of completion function" (Jul 31, 11:59pm) References: <20010801065937.52572.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Felix Rosencrantz , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: XML version of completion function MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 31, 11:59pm, Felix Rosencrantz wrote: } } Here are some first drafts of a couple XML examples based on the } _zip & _find files. } } Does this seem useful, yet? Any suggestions for making it better? } } [ Attachment (text/xml): "find.xml" 51024 bytes } find.xml ] } } [ Attachment (text/xml): "zip.xml" 69445 bytes } zip.xml ] Are you really, seriously suggesting that it's worthwhile to expend 50-70 thousand bytes defining the completion for a single command? In the case of zip that's 45% larger than the executable; it's even larger than the executable and its manual page combined. In find.xml there are about 5500 bytes of actual data, including the help text ... the other 89% is XML tags. I'm sorry, I just can't get excited about this. -- 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