texexec completion script for zsh

texexec completion script for zsh

[Aditya Mahajan]

Hi,

I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh.

Zsh can do some fancy completions with tab. I have written a completion 
script that gives some command line switches of texexec as part of tab 
completion in zsh. Here is what the output looks like 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Screenshot-Terminal.png

One can go between the different options by pressing tab.

The script is at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Adityam#Zsh_completion

This is my first attempt to write a zsh completion script. Any feedback is 
welcome.

Aditya
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Re: texexec completion script for zsh

[Matija Šuklje]

Dne ponedeljek 17. decembra 2007 je Aditya Mahajan napisal(a):
> I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh.

Sweet, thanks :]

> This is my first attempt to write a zsh completion script. Any feedback is
> welcome.

Well, I'm a Zsh newbie, so I'm in no position to claim anything to be wrong. 
But what bothers me with your script (as it is right now) is that when apart 
from 'texexec' there is also a 'texexec_completer' command present. 

Otherwise, really great work! It inspired me to perhaps even take on some Zsh 
scripting of my own at some point.


Cheers,
Matija Šuklje

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Re: texexec completion script for zsh

[Aditya Mahajan]

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Matija Šuklje wrote:

> Dne ponedeljek 17. decembra 2007 je Aditya Mahajan napisal(a):
>> I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh.
>
> Sweet, thanks :]
>
>> This is my first attempt to write a zsh completion script. Any feedback is
>> welcome.
>
> Well, I'm a Zsh newbie,

So am I. Been using it for about two weeks now.

> so I'm in no position to claim anything to be wrong.
> But what bothers me with your script (as it is right now) is that when apart
> from 'texexec' there is also a 'texexec_completer' command present.

Yes. All the completer functions are available as commands. Try _<tab> and 
you will see all the in-built ones.

If you want, you can rename texexec_completer to _texexec. That way, you 
will not get prompted for it on normal commands. I do not know if _ is 
reservered for distribution level completers or not, so did not name it 
_texexec.


> Otherwise, really great work! It inspired me to perhaps even take on some Zsh
> scripting of my own at some point.

I have been fairly impressed zsh tab completion. For example, suppose 
firefox has hung, and you want to kill it. Earlier, I did something like

ps aux | grep firefox

look at the pid and kill that process. With zsh, I can do

kill -9 firefox<tab> and it finds the pid for me. Sweet.

At some point, I hope to get a more sophisticated completer for texexec.

Aditya

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Re: texexec completion script for zsh

[Matija Šuklje]

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Dne torek 18. decembra 2007 je Aditya Mahajan napisal(a):

> Yes. All the completer functions are available as commands. Try _<tab> and
> you will see all the in-built ones.

Thanks. Nice :]

> If you want, you can rename texexec_completer to _texexec. That way, you
> will not get prompted for it on normal commands. I do not know if _ is
> reservered for distribution level completers or not, so did not name it
> _texexec.

Hmm, that would be a possibility. If I look at Gentoo's Portage 
autocompletion, they're all names like '_genlop', '_gentoolkit' etc. ...so 
IMHO '_texexec' would be quite acceptable.
.
> look at the pid and kill that process. With zsh, I can do
>
> kill -9 firefox<tab> and it finds the pid for me. Sweet.

I didn't know about that one yet ...but Zsh *is* amazing. Not to mention how 
the documentation is overpowering.

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