From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: new _tin
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:04:47 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102011504.QAA12691@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Oliver Kiddle's message of Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:54:54 +0000
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Firstly, hello everyone. I'm now back from my time away.
Hi!
> ...
>
> Is it wise to be separating the hostnames and nicknames for the news
> servers rather than completing them together under one title?
I'd say yes. This way users can always use the group-name style if
they want to have them together but they couldn't do it the other way
round.
> Is it okay
> to overload tag names for unrelated things - 'nicknames' is also used
> for NIS stuff.
It's ok as long as it's easy enough to come up with patterns to
disambiguate between the different uses, I think. So in this case,
where one only needs to have the command name(s) (or patterns for
them)...
> I'm also not too happy with the way this deals with an
> empty or non-existant newsrctable file.
>
> Why when completing newsgroups (the final part of _arguments) does it
> display just 'newsgroup' instead of 'Completing newsgroup' when I have
> zstyle ':completion:*' format 'Completing %d'?
Hm, doesn't happen to me.
> I thought about completing newsgroups properly using something like:
>
> : ${(A)_cache_newsgroups:=${${(f)"$(fgrep -v \! ~/.newsrc)"}%:*}}
> _multi_parts -i . _cache_newsgroups
>
> but I'm not too sure how consistent the .newsrc file format is. Can
> anyone confirm if this would work with slrn. Note that I've removed
> unsubscribed newsgroups here because otherwise it is painfully slow. I
> realise that fgrep isn't necessary for this but it is a lot quicker than
> doing it directly with zsh. Is it worth including this as an _newsgroups?
I don't know and have no opinion, respectively.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2001-02-01 15:04 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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2001-02-01 14:54 Oliver Kiddle
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