From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA11652 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:27:44 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA15080 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:16:55 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01287; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 06:27:17 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:27:40 +0100 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <3430.9507181027@pyro.swan.ac.uk> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Compctl fixes & a query In-Reply-To: "A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk"'s message of "Mon, 17 Jul 95 18:17:51 BST." <27816.199507171717@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:27:40 +0100 From: P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk X-Mts: smtp Resent-Message-Id: <"WkYfl1.0.zJ.4ou2m"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/232 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk wrote: > I think that, in the interests of consistency and name space > preservation, it would be a good idea to use ~+n rather than ~n, as > this reduces the number of characters that are treated specially. ~+n > and ~-n can then be interpreted however pushd interprets +n and -n, > depending on whether PUSHD_MINUS is set or not. What do people think > of this? I'm not keen on this either, it's just too long for a short cut. Furthermore, on this keyboard ~ and + are at opposite ends of the keyboard. I can do both with a left shift or right shift but it's a little messy. I'm not very accurate with touch-typing the top row and this maximises the difficulty. It shouldn't be too cumbersome to check for a row of numbers followed by either a slash or the end of the word. Presumably named directories are going to have to take priority anyway in case there are numeric user names (and on the basis that if you put it there, you want it back again). -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +44 1792 205678 extn. 4461 WWW: http://python.swan.ac.uk/~pypeters/ Fax: +44 1792 295324 Department of Physics, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.