From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: WORDCHARS, etc.
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:12:24 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906141312.PAA23929@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:15:47 +0200
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> One problem remains with the $NUMERIC mechanism: there's no way of
> differentiating between the case where the prefix was given as 1 and where
> no prefix was given. This is already noticeable in the completion code for
> specifying numbers of correction. Possibilities are either a separate
> parameter, which is clumsy, or altering NUMERIC in some way: I would
> prefer that it is still numerically 1 in either case to avoid confusing
> functions, but maybe it could be '+1' if the prefix wasn't set. That would
> mean making it a string instead of an integer parameter.
I wouldn't like it to be such a string because we can't easily get at
the default value then. How about leaving it unset if no numeric
argument is given? To be able to say ${NUMERIC:-1}.
(I had this idea some time ago but then forgot to ask...)
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
next reply other threads:[~1999-06-14 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-14 13:12 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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1999-06-15 6:57 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-06-14 9:19 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-06-14 14:42 ` Peter Stephenson
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1999-06-12 15:41 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-13 6:53 ` Wayne Davison
1999-06-13 11:17 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-14 7:15 ` Peter Stephenson
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