From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17690 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2000 08:26:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Apr 2000 08:26:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 2067 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2000 08:26:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10755 Received: (qmail 2046 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2000 08:26:43 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:26:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200004140826.KAA23956@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Sven Wischnowsky's message of Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:04:36 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: Matching Control with anchors between characters I wrote: > Yes, I've been thinking about adding something like this to the > manual, too -- and then forgot, as usual. I would have used the match > spec used by the functions that complete X colour names as an example, > which allows to use the uppercase letters (and digits) as shortcuts. Bummer. Of course, we don't have a way to specify a gap between cetain types of characters. But maybe what I showed is enough? Hm... with the possible patterns in match specs I have only one concern: speed. The gap-thing could probably be tested fast enough as long as we don't allow too complicated patterns combinations. I haven't really thought this through, though. But it would almost certainly make the syntax even more irritating for most. I think ;-) Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de