Re: vi editting troubles

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On May 23, 11:18am, Wayne Davison wrote:
> > 
> > An off-the-cuff suggestion:  Would it be possible to have the C code
> > call a "set completion defaults" shell function
> 
> The problem with any shell-function-based solution is that it requires a
> special case for the `localoptions' setting.
> 
> Better, perhaps, would be to augment the _comp_options variable with a
> _comp_setup variable, which would look something like this:
> 
>     _comp_setup='setopt ${_comp_options[@]} localtraps;
> 		 exec </dev/null;
> 		 trap - ZERR'
> 
> and then `eval' that variable in any function that is an entry point into
> the completion system.

Hm, not one reply so far (unless I've missed something).

This is of course better than what I suggested in 14449 because I always
forget about eval.  I'd even volunteer to make that change... or is
anyone really against it?

Bye
  Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de