From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2544 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 10:53:44 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Jul 2003 10:53:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 14863 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2003 10:53:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 18902 Received: (qmail 14853 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 10:53:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2003 10:53:38 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [62.189.183.235] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 24 Jul 2003 10:53:38 -0000 Received: from EXCHANGE02.csr.com (unverified) by MAILSWEEPER01.cambridgesiliconradio.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.10) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:52:57 +0100 Received: from csr.com ([192.168.144.127]) by EXCHANGE02.csr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:54:11 +0100 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Completion function installation Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:53:35 +0100 Message-ID: <21766.1059044015@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jul 2003 10:54:11.0451 (UTC) FILETIME=[EA205CB0:01C351D1] At what point do we need to think of a better mechanism for providing and installing completion functions? Things which occur to me include - people won't mind if the completion function directory is the odd megabyte, but won't want it to grow indefinitely with functions they never use - however, very few people will bother to configure which functions get installed even if we provide a more sophisticated mechanism (it can already be done by editing config.modules) - it's useful to be able to add newly written functions to existing installations easily (of course fpath means this is pretty trivial for anyone with any shell knowledge) - it's useful to be able to find functions for newly installed commands which are specialised enough not to have completions supplied with the shell. All that suggests having something like CPAN for completion functions, but that's a lot of work and I doubt we'll get volunteers. Adding completions supplied by users is always going to take real work by real human beings. I think we have to live with the current mechanism for now. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************