From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de>
To: Zsh-workers <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: typeahead problem
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 18:39:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <366D644B.72C33C2@uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001101be22c3$12fde9b0$21c9ca95@mowp.siemens.ru>
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> As to why it is taken for "no" - imagine, you typed something _before_
> read -q, and that was not completely consumed - you definitely does not want
> some leftover "y" to remove your valuable files :) so it tries to play safe.
But of course the prompt could as well have been "Do you want to keep
the file?"! IMHO it would be safer to discard all previously typed
characters before querying.
> The only thing I don't understand, why it works on my system ...
You're lucky. I don't understand a LOT of things! ;)
> The ultimate place to correct it is bin_read(); call
> getquery with last argument 1.
Yeah, that fixes it! Thanks!
Hm, is there any reason to call getquery(x, 0) at all?
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-08 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-08 12:38 Bernd Eggink
1998-12-08 13:01 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-12-08 14:07 ` Bernd Eggink
1998-12-08 14:30 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-12-08 15:08 ` Bernd Eggink
1998-12-08 15:54 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-12-08 17:39 ` Bernd Eggink [this message]
1998-12-08 18:06 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-12-08 18:38 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-12-08 18:38 ` Bernd Eggink
1998-12-08 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
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