From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id HAA16135 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 07:02:45 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28022; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:55:39 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:55:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <6976.199606062055@downwind.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: -M options To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 21:55:10 +0100 (BST) X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7619.35 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"NotmB.0.mr6.ANqjn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1281 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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