Build In public (zsh) - bindlist v0.2

After further study and experimentation, I’ve made some changes to the first version of my bindlist function.

bindlist v0.3

Called without options, the output looks like this:

screenshot - output of function: bindlist

Change notes

v0.2

Refactored for my educational purposes. No changes to function behavior.

Patterns are now assembled in an array instead of a string:

patterns=(
  "\^\[\["      # match "^[["
  "\^\[O[A-H]"  # match "^[OA"..."^[OH"
  "^\"\\\M"     # match "\M-^@"-"\M-^?"
  "\"-\"~\""    # match " "-"~"
  )

Previously, patterns were concatenated, in a function, like this:

for item in ${*}
do
  _e_patterns=${_e_patterns}$(printf ' -e '\''%s'\' ${item})
done

Now patterns are concatenated like this, without calling a separate function:

for pat in $patterns
do
  estring=$estring" -e '"$pat"'"
done

This method was used to execute a command with the concatenated patterns:

_cmd=$(printf 'grep -v%s\n' "${_e_patterns}")
_list=$(bindkey | eval "$(printf '%s' ${_cmd})")

Which has been simplified to this:

cmd="grep -v $estring"
_list=$(bindkey | eval $cmd)

v0.3

• remove unnecessary cmd variable use
• edit usage typo