From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA01756 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:11:53 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21791; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:12:01 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: "Bart Schaefer" Resent-Message-Id: <960827091236.ZM7980@candle.brasslantern.com> Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:12:36 -0700 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.729 29jul96) Resent-To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu From: Bruce Stephens Message-ID: <199608271537.RAA19912@cantecler.math.ruu.nl> Subject: Re: Distribution terms To: schaefer@nbn.com Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:37:04 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <960827082850.ZM7886@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at Aug 27, 96 08:28:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2078 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Before you go through that hassle, perhaps we should have (a) a statement > from Zoltan on whether he thinks the patches are worth including in the > first place, and (b) a discussion on zsh-workers about that statement. In their present state, they shouldn't be added, but if cleaned up so they're independent of list_types, I don't see why not. list_types suggests that there's some equivalence between listing files for completion and listing files generally, so perhaps a better solution (which wouldn't involve much extra code) would be to allow users to execute a command on lists of completions, so I could just pass it to ls. Does anybody see anything wrong with that? (Potentially, one could then get rid of list_types in favour of the user providing "ls -F", but there are obvious speed problems with that.) > I, for one, find this to be complete fluff and would just as soon skip it. It's certainly fluff, but I think it's quite pretty. I'd just as soon do it differently, though: I'd be happy for zsh to use an external ls. Or, one day, when we have dynamic loading in zsh like ksh93, perhaps a dynamically loaded ls function that I've extracted from fileutils. -- Bruce Stephens | email: B.Stephens@math.ruu.nl Utrecht University | telephone: +31 30 2534630 Department of Mathematics | telefax: +31 30 2518394 P.O. Box 80010, 3508 TA Utrecht | The Netherlands |