Re: PATCH: Implement zle -P

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Aug 31,  6:11pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PATCH: Implement zle -P
> }
> } On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:54:02 +0200
> } Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> } > This lets you say
> } > % zle -P mywidget prototypewidget myfunction
> } > and it will work like zle -N mywidget myfunction except it will behave
> } > like prototypewidget in Various Ways0x2122.
> }
> } It's not entirely clear what this does without documentation, but as the
> } flags are a bit obcsure anyway, it might not be all that clear how to
> } document it, either.
>
> I presume this is exactly like "zle -C name widget function" except that
> "widget" doesn't have to be a completion widget and "function" defaults
> to being the same as "name".
>
> Presumably the idea is for wrapper widgets, e.g., something like this:
>
>     zle -P bracketed-paste-magic bracketed-paste
>
> which would then make b-p-magic behave exactly like b-p, and thereby,
> e.g., eliminate the need for this stuff at the end of the former:
>
>     # Arrange to display highlighting if necessary
>     if [[ -n ${(M)zle_highlight:#paste:*} ]]; then
>         zle -R
>         zle .read-command && zle -U - $KEYS
>     fi
>
> If that's NOT what it accomplishes, then I'm uncertain why it's needed
> at all.

Well, it was your idea in the first place. And yeah, I made a mess of
these threads, there's an example for the above in the latest mail.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson