From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11018 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1999 22:15:17 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Sep 1999 22:15:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 3519 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 1999 22:15:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7966 Received: (qmail 3512 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1999 22:15:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:15:04 +0100 From: Adam Spiers To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Independent numbers of columns for matching groups? Message-ID: <19990920231504.B12352@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk References: <199909200831.KAA06269@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909200831.KAA06269@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/ X-OS: Linux 2.2.9 i686 Sven Wischnowsky (wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de) wrote: > Yes, I saw this, too, sometimes. The only problem I have with changing > it right away is that for groups that don't differ so much I prefer > having all columns aligned (well, another problem I have with this is > that it would make {i,comp}listmatches() more complicated, but that > shouldn't be a reason not to allow this). So maybe we should make this > an option are think about some clever way to make it automatically > decide if the columns should be aligned for all groups or not. That > would be: if the minimum and maximum number of columns for all groups > differ only by one (or two? or by `max / n'?), align all groups. > > Maybe we'll just have to play with this (and hence implement it). Sounds nice. > This gives me the oppotunity to repeat my question about the other two > possible enhancements: Andrej's suggestion to allow matches to be > layed out in a row-first order Personally I'm not too bothered but I'm sure some would really like this. > and my old LIST_PACKED (see 7590). Oh yes please!