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/
next prev 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
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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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