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From: "E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@ql.org>
To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: parse errors and up-line-or-history
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:03:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010172303.TAA15698@soup.ql.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001017142111.ZM3802@candle.brasslantern.com> (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com)


>   > zsh% for in *; do echo $i; done
>   > zsh: parse error near `do'
>   > 
>   > which seems entirely reasonable.  If you then do ^p to fix it, you see
>   > only
>   > 
>   > zsh% for in *; do
>   > 
>   > and not the whole command.
>
>   Congratulations, you've revived the "literal vs. lexical history" debate,
>   if it ever really was a debate.
>
>   Zsh used to have an option to store the command history as the literal
>   input text, rather than as lexical words.  IIRC, it actually stored both
>   and let you select which one to retrieve.  The duplication was resolved
>   in favor of lexical history a *very* long time ago, with the side-effect
>   that anything that won't lex, doesn't make it into the history.
>
>   For a partial workaround, see zsh-workers/10996.

This workaround does exactly what I want.  I just bound your
zle-fetch-previous and zle-fetch-next to ^x^p and ^x^n respectively so
I get the benefits of the lexical history except when I really want
the other in which case I can specify it directly.  Thanks.

                                Jay


  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-17 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-17 19:35 E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-17 21:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-10-17 23:03   ` E. Jay Berkenbilt [this message]
2000-10-18  9:08   ` Peter Stephenson
2000-10-18 15:38     ` Bart Schaefer
2000-10-19  7:10       ` Wayne Davison

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