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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] _postfix (postconf): Complete only applicable parameters for -X and -#.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:35:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160914203506.ZM32505@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915021503.GA15486@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>

On Sep 15,  2:15am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
} Subject: Re: [PATCH] _postfix (postconf): Complete only applicable paramet
}
} The prompt says:
} 
}     zsh: do you wish to see all 112 possibilities (28 lines)?
} 
} If I answer "yes" then I get 28 lines, that show everything in my
} `postconf -n` output and nothing else:

And how many words is that, all together?  I think it must be counting
the words in the descriptions as "possibilities" which probably has
something to do with the way the column positions are abused to get
the description to line up nicely alongside the thing described.

(Not the groups thing I first suspected after all, obviously.)


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  5:14 Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-14 16:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-15  2:15   ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-15  3:35     ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2016-09-15  4:48       ` Daniel Shahaf

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