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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Add completion suffix highlighting
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:31:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091205193141.036672b7@pws-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0912041353g2ff47fa8m9dd274ed8b37511@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:53:58 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a friend who just started using zsh a while ago, and she
> complained about / being removed when she pressed enter after
> completing a directory to rsync. Apparently rsync behaves differently
> with and without the / in place. We tried setting
> ZLE_REMOVE_SUFFIX_CHARS to nothing and using zle auto-suffix-retain in
> an accept-line hook, but then we realized it would be better if you
> could tell more easily if the suffix would be removed or not. So I
> whipped this up and somehow it worked on the first try (no guarantees
> though :). Given my poor track record of posting patches via email,
> here is a link to the patch, and I'll just paste in the essence of the
> patch for reference.

I'll commit this as it is with the following documentation and see
what happens---I think highlighting removable suffixes is actually quite
intuitive.  Note, however, there are a lot of cases in which bold fonts
aren't supported.

Thanks.

Index: Doc/Zsh/zle.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/zle.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.80
diff -u -r1.80 zle.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/zle.yo	17 Apr 2009 15:26:46 -0000	1.80
+++ Doc/Zsh/zle.yo	5 Dec 2009 19:29:55 -0000
@@ -2163,6 +2163,17 @@
 representation but are shown in a special manner by the line editor.
 These characters are described below.
 )
+cindex(completion removable suffix, highlighting)
+cindex(suffix, highlighting removable, in completion)
+cindex(removable suffix, highlighting in completino)
+item(tt(suffix)))(
+This context is used in completion for characters that are
+marked as suffixes that will be removed if the completion ends
+at that point, the most obvious example being a slash (tt(/)) after
+a directory name.  Note that suffix removal is configurable; the
+circumstances under which the suffix will be removed may differ
+for different completions.
+)
 enditem()
 
 tt(zle_highlight) may contain additional fields for controlling how
@@ -2235,6 +2246,7 @@
 )
 item(tt(bold))(
 The characters in the given context are shown in a bold font.
+Not all terminals distinguish bold fonts.
 )
 item(tt(standout))(
 The characters in the given context are shown in the terminal's standout
@@ -2280,7 +2292,7 @@
 context, the defaults applied are equivalent to
 
 example(zle_highlight=LPAR()region:standout special:standout
-isearch:underline+RPAR())
+suffix:bold isearch:underline+RPAR())
 
 i.e. both the region and special characters are shown in standout mode.
 
 
-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-05 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-04 21:53 Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-04 22:00 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-05 19:31 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2009-12-05 19:36   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-12-05 19:49   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-05 20:11     ` Peter Stephenson
     [not found] <mikachu@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 15:02 ` Completion lockup Mikael Magnusson
2008-02-06 15:07   ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-09 17:21   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-02-09 18:04     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-02-09 19:13       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-08-30 12:02 ` Who is sorting my completion results? Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-30 12:16   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-08-30 12:39     ` Mikael Magnusson
     [not found] ` <237967ef0902140622s7389d2c8h5a0c786dcf207422@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <200902141801.n1EI1E2l003603@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
     [not found]     ` <237967ef0902141019t30118690m30116c9413015d96@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <090214111316.ZM15188@torch.brasslantern.com>
     [not found]         ` <237967ef0902141141y609b61d3i154546f6f6886c65@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <090214133904.ZM15383@torch.brasslantern.com>
     [not found]             ` <20090216094632.30502fe9@news01>
2009-02-16  9:55               ` Problem with fake-files style and cd Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  1:25                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  4:41                   ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27  4:57                     ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  5:36                       ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27 14:24                         ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27 14:39                           ` Peter Stephenson
2011-05-27 15:06                           ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27 15:16                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27 15:44                               ` Bart Schaefer
2011-01-06 19:22 ` Infinite loop, can't reproduce with zsh -f Mikael Magnusson
2011-01-06 20:03   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-23 21:07 ` PATCH: Fix leaks of desthost in ztcp Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-23 21:53   ` Peter Stephenson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-30 16:10 zsh eats 100% CPU with completion in / Frank Terbeck
2009-10-30 21:14 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-30 21:25   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-30 21:33   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-31 20:00     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-10-31 22:43       ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-31 23:00         ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-01  1:50           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-01 18:31             ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-01 19:33               ` Bart Schaefer
2009-11-01 21:12               ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-01 22:20                 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-02  0:57                   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02  1:26                     ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 16:38                       ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-02 20:58                         ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 21:06                           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 21:30                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-03 10:10                               ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-03 11:24                                 ` Frank Terbeck
2009-11-02 10:06                     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-10-30 21:29 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2009-10-30 23:01   ` Frank Terbeck
2009-10-30 23:15     ` Frank Terbeck
2008-12-16 15:38 PATCH: edit-command-line with spaces in EDITOR Clint Adams
2008-12-16 17:07 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-16 19:22   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-12-16 19:27   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-16 20:51     ` Richard Hartmann
2008-12-16 21:45   ` Clint Adams
2008-12-16 22:31     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-17 12:16       ` Romain Francoise
     [not found]         ` <237967ef0812170448n11bd34f8y2c98b6484c8c0024@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <87oczb9d1j.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com>
2008-12-17 13:17             ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-17 14:44         ` Greg Klanderman
2008-12-17  4:04     ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found] <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
2008-10-30 21:20 ` another bug: zsh_directory_name Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-30 21:26   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-10-30 22:13     ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-30 23:44       ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-10-31  0:14       ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-10-31  9:44       ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-31  9:58         ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-30 22:16   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-31 11:10 ` PATCH: bug with hash builtin Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-31 21:07   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04  0:52 Identify "active" region? Bart Schaefer
2008-05-04  7:16 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 12:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04 12:33   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 12:35     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 13:28       ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 18:05         ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04 19:10           ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 16:38       ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-04 17:52         ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-13 16:54 PATCH: (large) initial support for combining characters in ZLE Peter Stephenson
2008-04-13 17:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-04-14  9:02   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-14 12:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-14 13:34 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-14 13:54   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-15 13:58     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-15 16:46       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-16  1:28         ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-16  8:47           ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-17  9:28             ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-09-22 18:16             ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-09-22 18:36               ` Peter Stephenson
2008-09-22 18:39                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-17 18:33 ` Jun T.
2008-04-18  9:40   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-18 15:48     ` Jun T.
2008-04-18 16:05       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-19 15:04         ` Jun T.

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