Zle bug

Zle bug

[Wez Furlong]

Hi,

I am reporting a bug that is present in zsh 3.1.2 and also 3.1.2-zefram3.
I have mentioned it before (when 3.1.2 was first released) but it does not
appear to have been addressed.

Here's a demonstration:

% > zsh -f
% > echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.0.5
% > bindkey  '\e[A'   up-line-or-search
% > who
wez      tty3     Feb  1 00:37
root     tty4     Feb  1 00:42
root     tty2     Jan 31 16:51
wez      tty5     Feb  1 01:42
% > ls
Admin              Personal           UNI                root
Amiga              Povray             Wez-Crontab        spambounce.tar.gz
Dave               Src                mail.vim           tmp
PCMCIA             Stuff              mbox
% > w

At this point I press cursor up

% > who

This is correct.

And here is the bug, with 3.1.2:

% > zsh -f
% > echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.1.2
% > bindkey  '\e[A'   up-line-or-search
% > who
wez      tty3     Feb  1 00:37
root     tty4     Feb  1 00:42
root     tty2     Jan 31 16:51
wez      tty5     Feb  1 01:42
% > ls
Admin              Personal           UNI                root
Amiga              Povray             Wez-Crontab        spambounce.tar.gz
Dave               Src                mail.vim           tmp
PCMCIA             Stuff              mbox
% > w

Pressing cursor up produces a beep.

% > w


This is a feature which I use a lot, and it's a shame it is missing/broken. I
have tested this on the following:

Linux twinklestar 2.0.31 #4 Thu Dec 18 14:19:38 GMT 1997 m68k

And an SGI IRIX 5.3 system - we have had several older versions of zsh which
work correctly, but both builds of 3.1.2 and 3.1.2-zefram3 exhibit the broken
behaviour.

While on the subject of IRIX and zeframs baseline version, there were a couple
changes needed in order for the build to be successful. I had applied zeframs
diff, and the build diff to correct the bashisms (which failed on about 5
hunks - I tried the systems default patch, and the latest gnu patch - the gnu
version failed less hunks than the other).

After applying those hunks manually, I then had to edit Src/signames.awk and
Builtins/rlimits.awk and change the references to 034 to 042, as gawk (3.x)
was producing \^ (or something similar) instead of ". Note, however, that
042 is octal for 34 which is the ascii code for ". 034 is the ascii code for
FS, which is not really what is wanted. This could be a portability of
{g,m,n}awk issue - interpretation of different radices.

I hope you can sort out the zle thing, and also fix the build setup (I had to
get autoconf (for autoheader) which required gnu m4, and then apply patches by
hand etc. etc.) - the zefram version was very difficult to build on the
semi-stock IRIX setup.

I also hope this is a ``useful'' bug report. :-)

Thanks,

Wez.

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Wez Furlong                        Undergrad - Electronic Systems Engineering
                                           http://www.twinklestar.demon.co.uk
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Re: Zle bug

[Thomas Köhler]

On Feb 1, Wez Furlong wrote

> Hi,
> 
> I am reporting a bug that is present in zsh 3.1.2 and also 3.1.2-zefram3.
> I have mentioned it before (when 3.1.2 was first released) but it does not
> appear to have been addressed.
> 
> Here's a demonstration:
> 
> % > zsh -f
> % > echo $ZSH_VERSION
> 3.0.5
> % > bindkey  '\e[A'   up-line-or-search
> % > who
> wez      tty3     Feb  1 00:37
> root     tty4     Feb  1 00:42
> root     tty2     Jan 31 16:51
> wez      tty5     Feb  1 01:42
> % > ls
> Admin              Personal           UNI                root
> Amiga              Povray             Wez-Crontab        spambounce.tar.gz
> Dave               Src                mail.vim           tmp
> PCMCIA             Stuff              mbox
> % > w
> 
> At this point I press cursor up
> 
> % > who
> 
> This is correct.

I'd say "no, it's a bug" ;-)

> And here is the bug, with 3.1.2:
> 
> % > zsh -f
> % > echo $ZSH_VERSION
> 3.1.2
> % > bindkey  '\e[A'   up-line-or-search
> % > who
> wez      tty3     Feb  1 00:37
> root     tty4     Feb  1 00:42
> root     tty2     Jan 31 16:51
> wez      tty5     Feb  1 01:42
> % > ls
> Admin              Personal           UNI                root
> Amiga              Povray             Wez-Crontab        spambounce.tar.gz
> Dave               Src                mail.vim           tmp
> PCMCIA             Stuff              mbox
> % > w
> 
> Pressing cursor up produces a beep.
> 
> % > w

Looking at the manpages, I found this:

          up-line-or-search
          Move  up a line in the buffer, or if already at the
          top line, search backward in the history for a line
          beginning with the first word in the buffer.

It works like this:
~> zsh -f
% echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.1.2
% bindkey '\e[A' up-line-or-search 
% ls -l
total 1503
[snip]
% pwd
/home/jean-luc
% l_
   ^
   Cursor here, hit cursor-up -> beeps, because the _word_ l wasn't
   found in the history
% ls_
    ^
    Cursor here, hit cursor-up -> expands to ls -l

This behaviour seems to be OK, looking at the documentation...

Perhaps this can't be done in zsh-3.1.2 as it is now, we may need
something like "up-line-or-history-beginning-search-backward". ;-)

CU,
Thomas [using history-beginning-search-backward]

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Re: Zle bug

[Anthony JR Heading]

On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 03:41:48PM +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:
> 
> I'd say "no, it's a bug" ;-)
> Looking at the manpages, I found this:
> 
>           up-line-or-search
>           Move  up a line in the buffer, or if already at the
>           top line, search backward in the history for a line
>           beginning with the first word in the buffer.
> 

Wouldn't it be preferable to fix the documentation rather than
the code?  I've also used this feature for as long as I can recall,
and FWIW the new behaviour I also assumed to be a bug.

Long live the status quo!  Down with user-defined widgets!  Affirmative
action for non-word-boundaries!

Seriously, if you have this function bound the cursor keys, this is
a major breakage.

Anthony

Re: Zle bug

[Wez Furlong]

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On Feb 9, 12:57pm, Anthony JR Heading wrote:

: On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 03:41:48PM +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:
: > I'd say "no, it's a bug" ;-)
: > Looking at the manpages, I found this:
: > 
: >           up-line-or-search
: >           Move  up a line in the buffer, or if already at the
: >           top line, search backward in the history for a line
: >           beginning with the first word in the buffer.
: 
: Wouldn't it be preferable to fix the documentation rather than
: the code?  I've also used this feature for as long as I can recall,
: and FWIW the new behaviour I also assumed to be a bug.

: Seriously, if you have this function bound the cursor keys, this is
: a major breakage.

After trying to use the other suggestion, I have to agree - can we fix
the documentation and adjust the code so that the behaviour is the same
as 3.0.5? I can't see the way to getting the widget to work for this
function anyway.


-- 
Wez Furlong                        Undergrad - Electronic Systems Engineering
                                           http://www.twinklestar.demon.co.uk
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Re: Zle bug

[Wez Furlong]

On Feb 1,  3:41pm, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6hler?= wrote:
> On Feb 1, Wez Furlong wrote
> > I am reporting a bug that is present in zsh 3.1.2 and also 3.1.2-zefram3.
> > Here's a demonstration:
> > 
> > % > bindkey  '\e[A'   up-line-or-search
> > % > w
> > At this point I press cursor up
> > % > who
> > This is correct.

> I'd say "no, it's a bug" ;-)

> Looking at the manpages, I found this:
> 
>           up-line-or-search
>           Move  up a line in the buffer, or if already at the
>           top line, search backward in the history for a line
>           beginning with the first word in the buffer.

> Perhaps this can't be done in zsh-3.1.2 as it is now, we may need
> something like "up-line-or-history-beginning-search-backward". ;-)
[much snipping applied]

Hmm. I suppose you are right. I shall be changing to
history-beginning-search-backward (I don't often use multi-line editing).

The "up-line-or-history-beginning-search-backward" would be nice idea though.
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Wez Furlong                        Undergrad - Electronic Systems Engineering
                                           http://www.twinklestar.demon.co.uk
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