Two questions about Zle

Two questions about Zle

[DervishD]

    Hi all :))

    Yes, I know, all of you are starting to plan my death if I don's
stop making questions. I hope that none of you live in Spain ;)))

    Well, seriously, I have two questions about Zle, the first one
being related to styles. I know that the new completion system has
some standard tags for configuring it, and I know that styles can be
used too with Zle, with context ':zle:widget-name', as said in the
user friendly guide. The question is: has Zle any standard tags too
for configuring it? I can't find it in the manual :???

    The second question is more important for me: with 'libreadline'
menacing our existence as developers, I would sleep better if
'libzle' exists ;)) Is there any future plan of making Zle a library
so the poor readline-damaged software out there has a good and really
powerful editor? There are other line editors (libedit in BSD, for
example), but IMHO Zle is the better. Far. The widget system, the
ability of creating new widgets, etc...

    I don't know if Zle is melted with the rest of the shell code
(which would make almost impossible to put it in a library), but
since it is a module...

    Thanks in advance and please excuse my verbosity, but reading the
user friendly guide has been like opening my eyes to the real power
of Zsh, and a lot of questions arise ;))

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Two questions about Zle

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 15,  6:40pm, DervishD wrote:
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} The question is: has Zle any standard tags too for configuring it?

No.  All zstyles are interpreted by shell functions, so only those
widgets that are implemented as shell functions are configurable in
this way.  The builtin widgets are only affected by setopts, if by
anything.

} Is there any future plan of making Zle a library so the poor
} readline-damaged software out there has a good and really powerful
} editor?

This is practically a FAQ.  No, there is no such plan; the operation of
zle does depend on zsh internals that cannot be externalized.

Re: Two questions about Zle

[DervishD]

    Hi Bart :)

 * Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> } The question is: has Zle any standard tags too for configuring it?
> No.  All zstyles are interpreted by shell functions, so only those
> widgets that are implemented as shell functions are configurable in
> this way.  The builtin widgets are only affected by setopts, if by
> anything.

    OK. I thought, for the userfriendly guide, that there was some
kind of standard tags.

> } Is there any future plan of making Zle a library so the poor
> } readline-damaged software out there has a good and really powerful
> } editor?
> This is practically a FAQ.

    I supposed: such a good line editor is a good candidate ;)))

> No, there is no such plan; the operation of
> zle does depend on zsh internals that cannot be externalized.

    What a pity :((( Zle is far better than any other line editor
I've seen. Much better than readline, no doubt, and more powerful
than libedit.

    Thanks for your answers :))

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Linux Registered User 88736
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