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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Reserved namespaces
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:00:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKc7PVBKeBprkqnfEbtpLmPyFUZNrBw9qe3cC+YfUU5GUYjk+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YU4YA7dk20SRyNrvpY9hTqJTf2DkqvA+F=VXT8rVyUuA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm not fully following, but is this about adding namespace.*
prefixes? Like zle.CURSOR, for example?

On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 at 04:56, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 9:13 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> There are at least 8 existing parameters that could be mapped into a
> "zle" namespace:
>
> zle_bracketed_paste
> zle_highlight
> ZLE_LINE_ABORTED
> ZLE_RECURSIVE
> ZLE_STATE
>
> ZLE_REMOVE_SUFFIX_CHARS
> ZLE_RPROMPT_INDENT
> ZLE_SPACE_SUFFIX_CHARS
>
> There are a couple of dozen more like BUFFER and CURSOR that could be
> in "zle" but might fit better in a "widget" namespace.  Of course it
> would be a while before we could retire the existing names, and
> because most of those variables act like locals there's less benefit
> to isolating them.
>
> It occurs to me that the CORRECT options and their behavior do not
> depend on ZLE being active, so it might not be appropriate to put
> keyboard layouts in that namespace.  There are also the parameters
> CORRECT_IGNORE and CORRECT_IGNORE_FILE to consider.  Reserving
> "correct" as a namespace feels odd as well, but I think mostly because
> it can be used as both a verb and an adjective.  Other ideas?
>
> Other namespaces to reserve?  For example there are a number of
> variables starting with "zsh" though again there'd be a long period of
> overlap.
>


-- 
Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-11 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-11  4:56 Bart Schaefer
2023-03-11 10:00 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2023-03-11 19:47   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-03-12  9:24     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-03-12 13:54       ` Eric Cook
2023-03-12 16:46       ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-03-12 19:24         ` Bart Schaefer

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