From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Stefan Monnier
<monnier+lists/zsh/workers/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>,
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: comments in completion
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 09:26:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <971116092626.ZM19655@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5liutsx2qz.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu>
On Nov 16, 10:44am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
} Subject: comments in completion
}
} What we really want is a way to put annotations that are understood by the
} completion mechanism, so that they are printed when listing alternatives,
} but they are not added to the command line.
Isn't that what compctl -X is for?
compctl -P - -X 'A <num> - show <num> lines of context after match
B <num> - show <num> lines of context before match
<num> - show <num> lines of context before and after match
C - show 2 lines of context before and after match
E - extended regular expression (egrep)
F - fixed string expression (fgrep)
G - basic regular expression (grep)
L - print only the names of files that do NOT have a match
V - print version number
b - prefix output with byte offset of each line
c - print only a count of matching lines
h - do not prefix lines with file names
i - case insensitive match
l - print only the names of files that have a match
n - prefix output with line number of each line
q - print nothing (set exit status only)
s - do not print error messages
v - select lines that DO NOT match the expression
w - match expression against whole words only
x - match expression against whole lines only
f <file> - read expressions from file <fil>
e - expression follows' \
-k '(A B C E F G L V b c e f h i l n q s v w x)' grep
} This would come in handy for all completion of numbers like job numbers,
} process ids, ...
The problem with job numbers and process IDs is that you have to generate
the explanation on the fly. Maybe what we need is a way to run a function
to provide the -X output, rather than having only a fixed string.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-16 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-16 15:44 Stefan Monnier
1997-11-16 17:26 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1997-11-17 13:54 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-11-17 15:45 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-11-17 16:26 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-11-17 17:13 ` Bart Schaefer
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