Re: PATCH: re-expand the prompt automatically

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > Are you suggesting it be tied to zle -R or zle redisplay or both?
> 
> Neither ...  Put to it, I don't think "redisplay" should have been a 
> built-in widget either, except that for historic reasons it had to be.  
> I'm suggesting that built-in widgets should always act on the editor 
> buffer (on either the contents or the position of the mark or the cursor) 
> whereas zle options -- or special commands like compadd -- should act on 
> the editing engine itself (widgets, keymaps, prompts and displays).
> 
> My criteria would best be described by the question, "Would it ever make 
> sense to use any of the zle -A, -C, -D, or -N options to supercede or 
> remove this action?"  If the answer is yes, it should be a widget; if no, 
> then either a zle option or a separate command.

I think I misinterpreted your use of `option'... I presumed you meant
something like `setopt always_redraw_prompt', whereas you presumably
meant something link `zle -P'.  I can certainly see an argument for that
but, as you say, it's all a bit murky.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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