From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6634 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1999 09:10:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Dec 1999 09:10:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 6113 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 1999 09:10:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8929 Received: (qmail 6106 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1999 09:10:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:10:42 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199912070910.KAA06939@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Adam Spiers's message of Tue, 7 Dec 1999 01:44:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Something wrong with prompt themes Adam Spiers wrote: > ... > > Eek. I wasn't really aware that there were any particular conflicts > between completion format styles and prompt themes ... actually that's > not true, since the `adam2' prompt theme, which I use the most, makes > user input bold initially, and I use: > > compstyle '*:descriptions' format "$fg_bold[white]%d$fg_no_bold[white]" > > But I suspect I'm missing more significant issues here. Could you > give a practical example or two where the extension suggested above > would be worthwhile? I didn't mean to say that there are conflicts, I was just wondering if thought about including defs for the format styles to make them look-alike with the prompt themes. Probably resulting in a nicer or more consistent user interface. > ... > > Yep :-) While I'm not convinced more flexibility is needed in this > (prompt themes) case, there's no denying that a generic customization > system would be very worthwhile. In my mind, the ideal goal would be > an extension of compstyle for general zsh customization (excepting > options, of course, because they're fine left as is), and then to have > some sort of simple front-end customization program (perhaps something > like the sort of UI the `dialog' program generates?) which harnesses > this in a user-friendly way. The upshot behind this would be that > someone can download, install and have running very quickly a version > of zsh with all the funky stuff enabled, and actually (roughly) > understand what all the funky bits do, without having to spend hours > uploading the zshcompsys man page to their brain. That would be > great, IMO. Any suggestions about how this should/could/would look like? > Back to the topic in hand. These 8-bit characters seem to be causing > several people to wrinkle up their noses, so I should change something > I guess. For me at least: only until I had a look at your screen shots... Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de