Re: Out of the box user experience

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> I'm a bit unhappy about all these completion scripts not being
> installed somewhere.  How about sticking them in $prefix/lib/zsh/ (in
> suitable subdirectories---maybe version-specific?), and adding a
> shell-set parameter, ZSH_SCRIPTS or ZSH_LIB or something, so it's easy
> to find them.

This will probably happen (if someone does it).  The last thing I though of
was two configure options, --completion-lib for where to install it
and --completion-install=core,base,builtins,all (with a cumulative effect)
to specify what to install.

> Then the suggestions in the README can be made more concrete for new
> users (we could even provide a script to do it).

That might be a good idea.

> On a different topic, I noticed some typos in the new documentation.
> Would it be helpful if I took the pws-12 docs and checked them?  I
> don't guarantee to spot errors (since there's lots of stuff I just
> don't understand), but I'm likely to spot most spelling errors and the
> more obvious things.  Or would it be better if I waited for a bit
> longer (when things are closer to a release)?

The zshcompwid manual is probably not finished yet, since there are a few
bits still in the pipeline.  I was intending to tidy it up when it was.
Then there may be a separate manual for the standard functions.  Any
existing non-completion-widget documentation is probably unlikely to change
much unless changed forcibly.

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