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Re: zle -R glitch

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: zle -R glitch
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:58:13 +0100 (MET)
Cc: Johan Sundström <johsu650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Sven Wischnowsky's message of Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:20:32 +0100 (MET)
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I wrote:

> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Sundstr=F6m?= wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I just had a peek at the new (to me, at least) widget system, and
> > impressed as I am, I found something that might need some fixing. As
> > an exercise, I tried implementing a "what-line" function:
> > 
> > function what-line () { zle -R "Line $HISTNO" }
> > zle -N what-line
> > ...
> 
> That's how it should be. Note that the manual says that the string is
> displayed in the status line which is used by widgets to display
> strings *while the widget is active* (like M-x and some others do it).

Oops. Leaving the string displayed was, of course, already possible. Kinda.

  function what-line () {
    local key
    zle -R "Line $HISTNO"
    read -k key
    zle -U "$key"
  }

Hm. But the -M option is probably still good to have.

Bye
 Sven


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