Re: PATCH: completion caching layer

[Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>]

Sven Wischnowsky (wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> > OK, I've written the first draft of the completion caching layer I
> > mentioned I was thinking about ages ago.

[snip]

> Shouldn't there be some way to flush the caches (in _retrieve_cache)?
> I.e. some style that says when the caches should be rebuilt.
> 
> This could be done either by a style with values that describe update
> policies sensible in enough possible contexts or by using a boolean
> style and let users use `zstyle -e' to implement their own policy (and 
> of course users could do that in the first case, too, but there may be 
> ways to make this more convenient for common cases).

This sounds very nice, but I'm not sure what sort of policies you have
in mind, and how they should be implement.  Could you give a few
examples?