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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Why does _main_complete not try the next completer when $_comp_mesg is non-zero?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:10:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3QDuG+Y7xKhcRdFVHNakiMgM=hZokJ8VhUHdpwOCJFNGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHLkEDt+5xiu62fLb2Gp9gQOh9Q_o8+-He64fooMMxPceon4vA@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/28/21, Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following line in _main_complete
>
> [[ -n "$_comp_mesg" ]] && break
>
> has the effect that, whenever _message has been called (with only few
> exceptions), the next completer won't be tried, _even when
> $compstate[nmatches] is zero._
>
> Why? What is the reason for this?
>
> And is there a convenient way to work around this behavior? I want
> _history to be tried when _complete fails, but this behavior often
> prevents it. For example, if I try `grep \t`, then I get only the
> message `pattern`, whereas I would like to get history words.
>
> And if there is not an easy workaround, would you accept a patch from
> me that changes this?

I haven't tested this, but I suspect that if this check were not
there, then loops due to approximate matching would print the message
multiple times.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-28 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-28 16:33 Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 17:10 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2021-03-28 17:27   ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-28 18:06   ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 20:51     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-28 21:42 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-29  1:22   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-31  6:29   ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-31  9:25     ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-31 10:07       ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-31 23:20     ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-01  5:11       ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-01 17:08         ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-02 12:58           ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-03  3:12           ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-05 10:26             ` Marlon Richert

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