From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28045 invoked from network); 7 May 1998 10:07:04 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 May 1998 10:07:04 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA11266; Thu, 7 May 1998 05:58:52 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 05:58:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805070959.LAA23466@hydra.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Oh my God! They killed completion! YOU BASTARDS! In-reply-to: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 11:30:23 MST." <199805070930.LAA28076@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:59:12 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"MH1jq2.0.zl2.SNOKr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3941 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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 Tel: +39 50 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Gruppo Teorico, Dipartimento di Fisica Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy