From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4080 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 13:11:35 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 13:11:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 705 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 1999 13:11:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7866 Received: (qmail 698 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 13:11:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:11:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199909161311.PAA01349@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Clint Adams's message of Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:30:39 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: _mutt, _mailboxes Clint Adams wrote: > This is my stab at completion for mutt. I imagine that the > _mailboxes function would be useful for completing the -f arguments > of elm and pine, after some tweaking. > > ... > > + '-h+:help' \ I thought I mentioned that in the docs, but it seems like I forgot it: the `:' after the message is needed even if the action is empty. And while I'm at it... I'm the only one who writes option descriptions, it seems, which I can understand considering how tedious that is. So my question is: if an option gets only one argument, should we turn it's description automatically into the option-description? Probably prefixed by something like `specify: '? Bye Sven diff -u od/Zsh/compsys.yo Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo --- od/Zsh/compsys.yo Thu Sep 16 14:16:06 1999 +++ Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo Thu Sep 16 15:06:49 1999 @@ -839,7 +839,10 @@ In places where no sensible matches can be generated, the action should consist of only a space. This will make the var(message) be -displayed but no possible completions listed. +displayed but no possible completions listed. Note that even in this +case the colon at the end of the var(message) is needed. The only case +where it can be left is when neither a var(message), nor a var(action) +is given. To include a colon in the var(message) or the var(action), it has to be preceded by a backslash. --- oldcompletion/User/_mutt Thu Sep 16 15:00:18 1999 +++ Completion/User/_mutt Thu Sep 16 15:07:05 1999 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ '-e:post-init configuration:' \ '-f+:mailbox:_mailboxes' \ '-F+:init file:_files' \ - '-h+:help' \ + '-h+:help:' \ '-H+:draft file:_files' \ '-i:include file:_files' \ '-m+:default mailbox type:(mbox MMDF MH Maildir)' \ -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de