Re: PATCH: Re: 3.1.6-dev-22

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

Adam Spiers wrote:

> ...
>
> > 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.
> 
> Doesn't history-complete-word need this feature?

I was only talking about removing the group-number from
$compstate[insert]. h-c-w, like other functions in the completion
system, uses the match-number feature, without a group number. That
would be kept.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de