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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:22:46 +0100 (MET)
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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
In-reply-to: Oliver Kiddle's message of Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:47:07 +0000
Subject: Re: Saving the zle display stuff


Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > 
> > It would be relatively easy to make it remember how long the list
> > below the prompt is (it should already know about the presence of a
> > list -- at least in most cases).
> > So, are you suggesting a zle-option to make it put the prompt `below
> > the list if there is one'?
> 
> Yes: a zle-widget that puts the prompt below the list if there is one.
> That allows me to keep the current list for later reference if I decide
> that I want to.

Hmhm. Dunno if/when I find the time... (or anyone else).

> ...
> 
> Out of interest, why does _setup use zstyle -s followed by [[ "$val" =
> (yes|true|1|on) ]] for various things including last-prompt instead of
> just using zstyle -b (or -t or -T)?

Because it has to distinguish three cases: style not set, style set to 
`true', style set to `false'.

> And in a separate message, Sven wrote:
> > Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > > Is there a better way for me to have done the equivalent of :*:nothing:_nothing for the -r option?
> >
> > Can't think of a better way... never thought about that. Hm. Is it
> > worth to make _arguments support this directly, i.e. add a syntax
> > saying: `no more arguments after this option'?
> 
> There's probably quite a lot of commands like zpty where they can be
> used in a few separate ways (each with their own set of arguments) and
> for these commands it is useful to avoid the final arguments for some
> forms so if it is fairly simple to do and there is a clear way of
> representing it in the _arguments parameters then it is probably worth
> doing.

Any suggestions for the syntax? (A trailing colon with no description
after it?)

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de