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Re: Tip of the day: previous command output



On 2004-08-23 08:21:24 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The date of the Zsh user guide is 1999/06/02; is it really that old?
> 
> You mean PWS's user guide that's on-line at zsh.org? I'm pretty sure
> that's its original date of "publication" and doesn't reflect
> incremental updates.

Unfortunately this makes difficult to know when it is updated.

> I _think_ that'd require changes to the C code as well. Menu
> selection is a bit unusual in that it runs zle with a new keymap but
> then interprets several of the built-in widgets differently. I'm
> pretty sure you can't change the listing from widgets in that
> keymap, but there might be some convoluted way to cause menu
> selection to exit and then immediately start again on a new set of
> matches.

Yes, this is a good idea. I can imagine that the menu can be generated
from the current word, containing a pattern, and each time the user
adds a character to the pattern, the menu is updated.

Thanks for all these informations...

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