From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Examples in _arguments description
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:12:32 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200005030712.JAA07011@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:01 +0400
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> The following paragraph looks strange:
>
> Every spec may also contain a list of option names and argument
> numbers with which the option or argument described is mutually
> exclusive. Such a list is given in parentheses at the
> beginning, as in `(-two -three 1)-one:...' or `(-foo):...'. In
> the first example, the options `-two' and `-three' and the
> first argument will not be offered as possible completions if
> the option `-one' is on the line before the cursor. Also, the
> list may contain a single star as one of its elements to
> specify that the description for the rest arguments should not
> be used and it may contain a colon to specify that the
> descriptions for all normal (non-option-) arguments should not
> be used.
>
> The second example `(-foo):...' is not mentioned anywhere and looks a
> bit strange anyway.
What do you mean by `not mentioned anywhere'? It's described
immediately before that: `with which the option *or argument* ...'.
And why does it look `strange'? (At least not stranger than other
things I've written ;-)
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-05-03 7:12 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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