From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Trial patch for showing completion in progress
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:51:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409091251.i89CpDWt013732@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4018.1094733627@trentino.logica.co.uk>
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > Is there a better place for this? On the whole I think this point is OK.
>
> It depends what you are trying to do. Are you trying to show the
> completers or the zstyle context? _main_complete is not the only place
> the context is changed so for showing the context, _description or
> _setup would be a better place.
No, it's just a gross indication of what process is happening.
> Why not just stick $SECONDS (as floating point) in PS4 and use
> _complete_debug.
That's a completely different thing requiring hours of sifting
information. With this you can find out what you want to know as you're
actually using it.
> I'm not convinced we should be sticking debug stuff like this into
> completion unless it really is proven to be useful.
I don't want to debug it, I want to see what it's doing without lots of
extra work. Progress information is a perfectly normal thing to have in
a system.
--
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 11:13 Peter Stephenson
2004-09-09 12:40 ` Oliver Kiddle
2004-09-09 12:51 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2004-09-09 15:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-09-09 15:40 ` Peter Stephenson
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