From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18223 invoked from network); 19 Aug 1999 08:48:01 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Aug 1999 08:48:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 23787 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 1999 08:47:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7447 Received: (qmail 23780 invoked from network); 19 Aug 1999 08:47:50 -0000 Subject: some notes on 3.1.6 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:46:46 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Wow. Those are some fairly dramatic changes in 3.1.6. I very much like the approximate completion. Congratulations to all concerned. Some problems/potential changes I note in passing: ---- When an autoloaded special parameter is not actually defined by the module loaded, there is no error message (compare "autoload failed" when it's a builtin). Instead, the parameter remains in an autoloadable state. Try, for example: zmodload -ap example foobar foobar=1 foobar=2 foobar=3 ---- When autoloading of condition codes fails, there is a similar problem. There is an error message ("unrecognized condition"), but the condition code remains autoloadable. ---- Now that we have autoloadable parameters, the watch system (the watch parameter and the log builtin) can be relegated to a loadable module like sched. getopts can probably go the same way. ---- We ought to have autoloadable builtin widgets (for the deltochar module). This could be implemented in user space by defining the widget as a user-defined widget which, when run, loads the module in question and then calls the new definition. ---- #compdef -k tagged functions, when processed by compinit, add key bindings to the current main keymap. Unfortunately, all the key bindings are appropriate for emacs, and cause real trouble if the vi key bindings are being used. ---- zftp really ought to allow more than one concurrent open session. One could refer to sessions by name, with a mechanism to generate unique names; commands that don't specify which session they apply to use a default name (either actually fixed or taken from a parameter). ---- The new parameters and condition codes in the example module are not documented. ---- After doing a "compinit" (on a shell started with zsh -f), completion of parameter names now adds a space suffix when it shouldn't (e.g., during menu completion). AUTO_PARAM_SLASH then has no effect, and suffix removal is partly broken; for example, after completing a parameter name in braces, a typed close brace doesn't remove anything. ---- The documentation says that the parameter module provides a parameter called "command". Actually it's "commands". ---- -zefram (regular access but no spare time, for the moment)