From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Correct completion of 'tmux new <TAB>'.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 07:57:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24145.1500962240@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1500818487.2639605.1049794664.32ABA0EF@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> How about:
>
> item(tt(_cmdambivalent))(
> Completes the remaining positional arguments as an external command.
> The external command is completed as word-separated arguments (in the manner of tt(/usr/bin/env))
I'd just say that
the external command and its arguments are completed as separate [positional] arguments
"word-separated" is a confusing term as "words" are not the separators.
> if there are two or more remaining positional arguments on the command line,
> and as a quoted command string (in the manner of tt(system+LPAR()...+RPAR())) othrewise.
Fine aside from the otherwise typo.
> See also tt(_cmdstring), tt(_cmdrest), and tt(_precommand).
Assuming those three exist both in form and documentation.`
> Makes sense. In addition to checking for spaces, we could also check
> for an opening quote. (An opening quote is more likely to signify a
> quoted shell command than an argv[0] with spaces.)
Yes, that makes sense.
> Why not document _precommand? Firstly, documenting it would help
> Not quite what you meant to say, I think, but having that section of the
> documentation grouped by logical function would make a lot of sense.
> Right now, anyone who tries to understand _tags by RTFM'ing needs to
We currently document functions in three sections:
CONTROL FUNCTIONS
BINDABLE COMMANDS
UTILITY FUNCTIONS
_precommand's primary purpose is not really as a utility function but
any function can be treated as one. Maybe we could add another section
or subdivide as you suggest. Certainly grouping all the tags/labels
functions together might be an improvement.
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-25 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-20 21:06 Daniel Shahaf
2017-07-21 3:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-07-21 17:46 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-07-23 7:48 ` Oliver Kiddle
2017-07-23 14:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-07-25 5:57 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2017-07-25 12:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
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