[RFC] abbreviation suffixes

[olets]

Suffixes, same idea as zsh-abbr prefixes but following the abbreviation, "treat this as an abbreviation only if followed by ____"… Would that be useful? I hadn't thought about it until this week. Now I've thought of it, but I don't know if there's any reason for it.

scalar_suffixes=( x )
abbr a=b
ax[space] # expands to `bx `

Individual program's CLIs tend to narrow with each token, so within a command probably not that useful. But if you're piping, or &&ing or ;ing, maybe it'd be useful?

Downside is it would incur some performance cost on each trigger of the expansion widget (space by default). Don't know ahead of time whether it'd be a perceptible cost.

No matter what, no immediate plans to implement. But interested to hear what you all think.

[henrebotha]

d[space] # expands to `diff `
diff a[space] # no expansion
diff p[space] # expands to `docker pull `

Haha, kind of fun. So you can type d p and get docker pull , but type d a and you get diff a .

I wouldn't quite call that useful just yet.