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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: ZLS_COLORS/ZLS_COLOURS consistency in _setup
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:47:41 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105290947.LAA09057@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010528115530.A17073@dman.com>

Clint Adams wrote:

> This attempts to follow the course of action outlined as option #1
> in the message included after the patch, though I agree that clobbering
> those parameters is counterintuitive.

Hm. I'm almost constantly amazed by all the things we people consider
`intuitive' these days ;-)

But anyway... there is no way around this if we want to be able to
define context-specific colors. Which we want.

> I wonder why ZLS_COLORS and ZLS_COLOURS aren't linked together
> as special parameters by zsh/complist. 

Probably mostly simplicity in the C-code.  These two aren't special in
any way.  The code just looks them up.

> I also think the precedence
> of those two should be documented.

Hm, they are mentioned in the order in which they are looked up[1].


Bye
  Sven

[1] So `COLORS' comes first.  And that from me.  I would have guessed
    it were the other way round.  How counterintuitive.

-- 
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-29  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-28 15:55 Clint Adams
2001-05-29  9:47 ` Sven Wischnowsky [this message]

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