From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16516 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 13:54:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Mar 1999 13:54:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 12179 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 1999 13:54:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5824 Received: (qmail 12172 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 13:54:13 -0000 Message-Id: <9903161337.AA61220@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Out of the box user experience In-Reply-To: "Bruce Stephens"'s message of "16 Mar 1999 13:31:50 NFT." Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:37:33 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson 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. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy