From: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>,
"Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make _expand handle aliases (was Re: [PATCH] Make _expand_alias more usable as a completer)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 10:32:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHLkEDvYCm7CSq+atnwa4HmaHZW-4hB6hvJBZ4r+2x83pr==yw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZafdORwuCkk7+0det41vDbiu++TaNiS_fn3HkrOhKgAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 11:39 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> I suppose it's better to be offered as part of
>> completing aliases, but listed separately, after the actual alias
>> completions.
>
> This is tricky, because if you complete (rather than expand) to a value that has multiple shell words, you can't enter normal menu completion -- the next TAB will find that the line has new words on it and start a new completion in that context.
I tested menu completion with multi-word entries and it works fine.
> Which might be the behavior you want here, but would definitely need to be a style setting.
I agree.
I've also been thinking about adding a zstyle extra-verbose for
showing what each alias stands for, but I'll leave that to a separate
patch.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-11 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-28 21:59 [PATCH] Make _expand_alias more usable as a completer Marlon Richert
2021-06-02 23:23 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-06-03 21:42 ` Marlon Richert
2021-06-20 19:49 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-06-20 21:08 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-06-20 22:24 ` Marlon Richert
2021-07-18 23:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-07-28 3:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-01 18:50 ` [PATCH] Make _expand handle aliases (was Re: [PATCH] Make _expand_alias more usable as a completer) Marlon Richert
2022-03-31 22:35 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-04-01 0:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-05-06 5:57 ` Marlon Richert
2022-05-07 20:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-05-11 7:32 ` Marlon Richert [this message]
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