From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14704 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 07:12:51 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 May 2000 07:12:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 9595 invoked by alias); 3 May 2000 07:12:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 11087 Received: (qmail 9586 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 07:12:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:12:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200005030712.JAA07011@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:01 +0400 Subject: Re: Examples in _arguments description 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de