From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Oh my God! They killed completion! YOU BASTARDS!
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:59:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805070959.LAA23466@hydra.ifh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 11:30:23 MST." <199805070930.LAA28076@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> Andrew Main wrote:
>
> > Possibility for zsh-workers: should `emulate' have the capability to
> > emulate earlier zsh versions? So `emulate zsh-2.3' would turn off
> > LIST_AMBIGUOUS and so on.
> >
>
> Hm. That may result in pretty complicated code sometimes, if this is
> not restricted to option settings. (Not that the current code is simple...;-)
I'm afraid that's proably a fatal flaw with this, nice as it would be.
If you have an emulate zsh-X, people are going to assume it does what
its name suggest, rather than just change the options. Probably a
clear list of changes in default options, maybe in the documentation
as well as the news file so that it's available to users on most
right-thinking systems, would be enough --- people just want to set
them once in their .zshrc. Then we can avoid *too* many messages
demonstrating passionate attachment to options...
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> Tel: +39 50 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-07 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-07 9:30 Sven Wischnowsky
1998-05-07 9:59 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-05-07 5:14 pacman
1998-05-07 8:58 ` Andrew Main
1998-05-07 16:39 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-07 16:47 ` Andrew Main
1998-05-17 1:58 ` TGAPE!
1998-05-17 9:19 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-18 5:12 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-07 18:45 ` pacman
1998-05-08 8:59 ` Andrew Main
1998-05-07 18:08 ` Andrew R. Large
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