From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: completion behaviour (was: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.5 released)
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:39:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9811021039.AA42030@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:36:33 NFT." <199811021036.LAA22116@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> We had some discusssion about a new way to define completion behaviour
> which (seemingly) settled on: let's use shell functions and offer a
> few new builtins. So, if I implement this, do we really want the
> changes to compctl (note: I mean compctl, most of the changes in the
> completion code itself would be used anyway) or should we leave
> compctl alone and offer the new possibilities through the new way to
> define completion behaviour, thereby giving some incentive to switch
> to the new way?
It's hard enough having to keep track of compctl changes without
having to think about doing everything a completely different way.
I'd much prefer everything to be reachable from compctl for the time
being. I realise it's not necessarily going to look nice, but that
has never really been compctl's aim.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarotti 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-02 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-02 10:36 Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-02 10:39 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
1998-11-02 11:29 ` Zefram
1998-11-02 12:00 ` Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-02 12:31 ` Zefram
1998-11-02 13:48 ` Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-03 15:58 ` new completion behaviour version 2 Sven Wischnowsky
1998-11-03 17:15 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-06 19:02 ` Bart Schaefer
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