From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: what should compctl's look like?
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 13:08:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199612011808.NAA28822@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 1996 09:41:24 PST." <961201094226.ZM20801243@srf-58.nbn.com>
Bart spoke thusly:
> A text format has some of the same problems -- I for one would love to
> see compctl move away from all these cryptic command-line switches and
> instead become a more structured construct with keywords etc.
I agree with this. Essentially compctl is a 'language within a language'.
It would be nice to see this 'language' developed to be something less
cryptic. What what should it look like?
Maybe someone could do some experiments with flex/lex and
yacc/bison to see what might work.
rc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-01 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-30 13:31 Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file Fung-Chai Lim
1996-11-30 16:40 ` Zefram
1996-11-30 23:16 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-01 12:55 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 14:02 ` Zefram
1996-12-01 17:41 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-01 18:08 ` Richard Coleman [this message]
1996-12-01 18:54 ` what should compctl's look like? Zefram
1996-12-01 18:38 ` Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file Zefram
1996-12-02 13:23 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 13:22 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 14:17 ` Zefram
1996-12-01 15:38 ` Fung-Chai Lim
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