Feature Suggestion

Feature Suggestion

[ramos]

I would like to suggest a new zsh feature, to anybody who
has the inclination to implement it:

The "magic" relationship between path/PATH, manpath/MANPATH,
and fpath/FPATH (are there others?) should be made genericly
available via a typeset flag. e.g.

	# Ties myarray and MYARRAY as a "mirrored" array & colon-
	# separated-scalar pair.

	typeset -m myarray=(x y z)
	echo $MYARRAY

	(output: x:y:z)	

And, why be restricted to ":" as separator for the scalar?

	typeset -m"," LIST=a,b,c
	echo $list[2]

	(output: b)

Or actually, why be restricted by the lowercase/upercase convention?

	# Syntax still needs some thought

	typeset -m myarray1:myarray2

While we're on the subject of arrays... it would be nice if there
was a way to use array values without having to first assign it to
a variable. e.g.

	x=(a b c); echo $x[2] 	# works
	echo (a b c)[2]		# doesn't
	echo $[(a b c)[2]]	# doesn't either

Thanks,
--
Alex Ramos

Re: Feature Suggestion

[Bruce Stephens]

ramos@ih4ess.ih.lucent.com said:
> The "magic" relationship between path/PATH, manpath/MANPATH, and 
> fpath/FPATH (are there others?) should be made genericly available 
> via a typeset flag. e.g. 

This has come up before, but I can't remember what happened to it.  Some 
shells, (ksh93?, tcsh?) have a more general feature of programmable actions 
which happen when parameters get set/read, so perhaps the plan was to provide 
and use that?

There's a bit of a problem with things like: "set cdpath=(/foo:blurb .. 
~/bin)" and the like, but that exists already and doesn't bother anyone.

In any case, I think you're right, there ought to be some way of doing this, 
and I can't see a way.  (typeset -m is a bad choice though, since -m is 
already taken.)

feature suggestion

[Terrance Hendrik]

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Dear developers,

Please add `apt info` as same function as `apt install` into  `_apt-cmd` of
`functions/Completion/Debian/_apt`


thanks
-- 
Terrance

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Re: feature suggestion

[Aaron Schrab]

At 13:15 +0800 28 Jul 2023, Terrance Hendrik <terrance.hendrik@gmail.com> wrote:
>Please add `apt info` as same function as `apt install` into  
>`_apt-cmd` of
>`functions/Completion/Debian/_apt`

That doesn't appear to be documented as an apt subcommand, I don't see 
it in either the apt(8) manpage or the output of `apt help`.

However both of those sources *do* mention `apt show` which seems to do 
the same. That *is* supported by the completion code, and would probably 
be a better thing to clone if support for `apt info` were to be added 
(although since `install` and `show` just seem to complete all packages 
I don't think it matters much currently).

Re: feature suggestion

[Terrance Hendrik]

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hmm, it's not in the `--help` or man page. looks like an alias of
subcommand `show`.

ref:

[https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/cmdline/apt.cc]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 3:08 AM Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> wrote:

> At 13:15 +0800 28 Jul 2023, Terrance Hendrik <terrance.hendrik@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Please add `apt info` as same function as `apt install` into
> >`_apt-cmd` of
> >`functions/Completion/Debian/_apt`
>
> That doesn't appear to be documented as an apt subcommand, I don't see
> it in either the apt(8) manpage or the output of `apt help`.
>
> However both of those sources *do* mention `apt show` which seems to do
> the same. That *is* supported by the completion code, and would probably
> be a better thing to clone if support for `apt info` were to be added
> (although since `install` and `show` just seem to complete all packages
> I don't think it matters much currently).
>

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