zsh-workers
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: completion for perldoc
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:18:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990907101858.B7292@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199909070857.KAA407243@hydra.ifh.de>; from Peter Stephenson on Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:57:22AM +0200

Peter Stephenson (pws@ifh.de) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> > > _perldoc {
> > > ...
> > 
> > I forgot to say: this kills zsh :-(
> 
> There's no () after _perldoc, so it thinks it's a function call, not a
> definition.  You just generate hundreds of recursive calls to _perldoc
> until the machine gets board of having enough space on the stack, or
> something.

Yes, I'm ashamed to say this was indeed the problem, and as usually
happens, I only realised it after I'd posted.

> Also, since it's assumed in the completion functions that KSH_AUTOLOAD
> isn't set, you need to have as the last line `_perldoc "$@"' to call
> the function you've just defined.

Ah!  So /that's/ why I was having to press TAB twice.  Thanks.

> The may be a bug here.  Has anyone the slightest idea why `_perldoc {'
> is accepted as a complete command line with the argument "{"?

Nope.  I've been bitten by that more than just this once though; I
always forget the () ...


  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-07  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-06 11:37 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-06 18:18 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-06 18:21   ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-07  8:57     ` Peter Stephenson
1999-09-07  9:18       ` Adam Spiers [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-07  9:02 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-07  8:59 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-07  8:32 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-07  9:49 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-06  9:28 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-09-06 10:07 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-05 21:38 Adam Spiers

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=19990907101858.B7292@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk \
    --to=adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk \
    --cc=adam@spiers.net \
    --cc=zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).