Feature request: interoperability with zsh-abbr

[mainrs]

zsh-abbr allows for the creation of fish-like abbreviations. These get substituted in-shell with the specified command and do appear inside the history as the substituted command.

Repository: https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr
Related discussions: olets/zsh-abbr#51 (reply in thread)

[MichaelAquilina]

this is a nice feature I was actually not even aware of, thanks for the suggestion :)

[p1r473]

@mainrs Added in #133
I cant figure out how to detect whether an abbreviation was used though as it automatically gets swapped before the command is entered
So it basically will always show up.

[mainrs]

@mainrs Added in #133 I cant figure out how to detect whether an abbreviation was used though as it automatically gets swapped before the command is entered So it basically will always show up.

Ahhh, I see what you mean. In fish (where I initially saw this), there seems to be a way to detect the raw user input . So it's possible to discern if the user used the abbreviation or the full command.

[olets]

Hi I'm the zsh-abbr maintainer 👋

Teaching zsh-you-should-use about zsh-abbr abbreviations is a neat idea.

@mainrs thanks for spearheading and middlemanning.

@p1r473 cool stuff in #133. I think it can be done with fewer or maybe even no forks (that is, external commands)! For example, you can get more robustly handle the quotation marks with Q or q parameter expansion modifiers (docs), and you can get the abbreviation directly, without building an inverted array, with the pattern ${(k)association_haystack[(r)$value_needle]} (r subscript flag docs). Would be great to support global abbreviations that aren't the entire line. Heads up that the upcoming "prefixes" feature will complicate things. (I don't know zsh-you-should-use well enough to comment on the limit and zstyle changes.)

@MichaelAquilina if you're up for supporting zsh-abbr abbreviations, I'm up for taking on the work of exporting some additional variables with an eye towards minimizing the implementation in zsh-you-should-use.

[p1r473]

Hey long time @olets
That would be great if you can add it in in a more official way :)
Thanks for the tips. Ive tried to incorporate them into my pull request now.
Here's a visual example of how its working now showing an abbreviation for ls -t as list

[MichaelAquilina]

@olets that sounds great! :) thanks for chiming in. Any variables that could serve as an "API" to zsh-abbr would be very helpful in making sure this feature works correctly and doesnt take a lot of effort to maintain.

What kind of variables do you have in mind?

[olets]

What kind of variables do you have in mind?

One each for

• the text you could have abbreviated
• the abbreviation you could have used
• the abbreviation you could have used's scope
• the abbreviation you could have used's type
• and, after prefix support is released, the prefix (if any)

If no opportunity to use an abbreviation was missed, they'd all be empty.