Hello Frank,
Hello Daniel,
nice to see Zsh is actively maintained in Debian. ;)
Merely i was referring that the intention of the original patch as i understand
was to make the whole pattern case-insensitive, not only the first part of it.
Just documented public in the bug report for other interested readers.
I have no strong opinion on whether or not this actually makes it in the
official Debian package. That being said...
Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote:
> Frank Terbeck wrote on Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:27 +0200:
>> In the meantime (it's been more than seven years), I've changed my mind
>> about this. I think a vendor should do as little as possible in their
>> global configuration files.
-- <snip> --
> So, I guess what Frank and I are saying is: if you want better defaults,
> work with upstream on making that happen.
-- <snip> --
> P.S. How about adding a mention of newuser.zshrc.recommended to
> README.Debian, so it's more discoverable?
>
>> ¹ A case could be made that this is overstepping the boundaries already.
>> And maybe that's true. Getting keyboard handling in a terminal right
>> is a hard task, however. It requires intimate knowledge about some of
>> the subtleties of how terminals work and about the facilities zsh of-
>> fers to work with those. It would be much better, if zsh did some of
>> this out of the box, but alas it doesn't. (The rationale is to not
>> break existing setups — and that's a valid argument, too.)
... I fully agree on all of this especially the part about keyboard setup.
Which is certainly not an easy task for newcomers.
Regarding the original request i think the options are:
1) as mentioned make upstream include it.
2) Include commented parts in debian stock /etc/zsh*.
IMHO the file /etc/inputrc is a good example for this.
3) Factor out a "zsh-debian-extras" package.
kind regards,
Thilo
