From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3401 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2000 09:51:25 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Apr 2000 09:51:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 3474 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2000 09:51:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10643 Received: (qmail 3462 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2000 09:51:16 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:51:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200004110951.LAA04312@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Sven Wischnowsky's message of Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:13:38 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: Question I wrote: > Oliver Kiddle wrote: > > > Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > > > > > Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > > > > Is there any way to scroll/page output? It would be even more > > > > interesting ... > > > > > > No there isn't. I have a very faint memory of this question having > > > come up before. I think the discussion stopped when we were thinking > > > about everybody wanting her/his favourite pager key bindings being > > > supported. > > > > I would have thought it would be far better to allow people to use their > > favourite pager (as taken from $PAGER) instead of trying to write a > > simple pager. How compilcated would it be to make the listing code > > output to a pipe instead. There is actually a few times when I would > > have liked to pipe completion listings through a command so if this > > implemented, it would be useful to be able to specify another command > > (such as grep) to pipe the listing into. > > A matter of replacing `shout' in several places with the pipe. But > then there is the issue of starting the external command... And what > to do with menu-selection? And the terminal codes used by complist? > > Oh my, and I only asked if it would be better to mention the number of > lines needed for the list when asking if it should be displayed... ;-) > > And noone has answered that yet (unless Andrej meant that it would be > better). Err, wait. You almost certainly want to use different commands for different lists, so we would have to read the command line to use for piping first. Isn't that getting a bit too complicated? Hm, make isearch work in menu-selection and the (proposed, vapour-warish) pager? Ouch. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de