Thank you for the clarification.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 08:13 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:48 PM Nikita Romanyuk <ufh8945@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I understood correctly, we shouldn't use setopt for changing keyboard
> > layouts because it's not expandable. Better, there should be a separate
> > builtin function. How should it be called? "setlayout"? "setkblayout"?
>
> No, you have misunderstood.  We're suggesting something like
>
> .zle.layout=$'\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n etc etc'
>
> and then the spdist function would read the value of that variable.
> No new options, no new builtins.
>
> A shell function file similar to (for an example)
> Functions/Misc/colors would provide a set of layouts that could be
> assigned to the variable.
>