RE: PATCH: Re: 3.1.6-dev-22

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> ...
> 
> I always forgot it ... to clean up before release.
> 
> The decsription of compstate[insert] :
> 
> ...
>           On exit it may be set to any of the values above (where
>           setting it to the empty string is the same as unsetting it),
>           or to a number, in which case the match whose number is given
>           will be inserted into the command line.  It may also be set
>           to a string of the form `GROUP:MATCH' which specifies a match
>           from a group of matches to be inserted, counting from 1
>           upwards (e.g. `2:4' specifies the fourth match of the second
>           group).  Negative numbers count backward from the last match
> ... etc and the next paragraph
> 
> Now, either I'm completely blind, or this is the _only_ place where
> "number of group" is mentioned. This was there for a long time; I
> presume, originally it was for sorted/unsorted matches - but
> 
> - either it should be described, where these group numbers come from
> - or, better yet, the name of group should be used.

We have six name spaces for group names.

The whole thing comes from a time when we were thinking about ways to
get information about the matches already added. Then I was thinking
about using it for the stuff that is now done with _next_tags. I
didn't expect so much consistency and control in the shell code then.

So, I would like to make the question: should we remove it? I would
only comment it out in the C-code just in case we get a way to access
matches added some day (not for a long time, I think).

Actually, I was already tempted to remove it more than once and I
don't think it would cause much harm (or any at all) -- noone has
written another example completion system and the one we have doesn't
use this feature.

Comments? Opinions?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de