From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19462 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 15:09:15 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 May 2000 15:09:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 27134 invoked by alias); 16 May 2000 15:09:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 11414 Received: (qmail 27127 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 15:09:08 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:08:38 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrej Borsenkow X-Sender: bor@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru To: Sven Wischnowsky cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: _arguments (was: Re: option and case insensitive matcher-list.) In-Reply-To: <200005161111.NAA27123@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 16 May 2000, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > Umpf. No, currently not and I can't think of a good syntax. Does > anyone have suggestion? (Of course we could just put it before the > `--' with a normal spec, but I'd like to find a way to specify such > things for the auto-detection descriptions...) > Sven, you once asked about example, why adding new features to _arguments is not as easy. Here you have one. For this reason I really think, that something different (like flags in parameter expansions or globbing) is needed. In this case you have just one syntax construct. I do not suggest, that should not support current formats. It needs too much rewrite. But for the future something different is definitely needed. -andrej