From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list)
Subject: -M options
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 21:55:10 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6976.199606062055@downwind.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
About a year ago, we discussed the possibility of several builtins
having the capability to display the state of things in the form of
commands to set up that state. I believe the consensus was
favourable. A couple of builtins, compctl and alias, now have that
capability, in the form of their -L options. -L can't be used for all
the builtins, because it already has a different meaning to typeset, so
I suggested that we use -M instead.
What does everyone now think of this idea? I personally like it -- I
use compctl -L quite a lot. Can anyone think of a better option letter
to use? I'd like to know people's opinions on this matter.
A while ago I posted patches to implement this option in several
builtins, but most of them didn't get into the baseline. Richard,
could you say why you didn't use them? Was it simply a matter of
avoiding adding new features, in preparation for the 3.0 release?
Zoltan, would you add this feature to the baseline, if I were to post
updated patches? (Some of the patches I posted will no longer apply,
due to metafication changes.)
-zefram
next reply other threads:[~1996-06-06 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 20:55 Zefram [this message]
1996-06-06 21:08 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-06 21:51 ` Zefram
1996-06-06 22:18 ` Goran Larsson
1996-06-07 4:16 ` Richard Coleman
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