From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14770 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 13:24:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jun 2000 13:24:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 6123 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2000 13:22:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3226 Received: (qmail 6056 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 13:22:21 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Matthias Kopfermann" , "Zsh Users" Subject: RE: --help trough _use_lo , but how with -h style? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:22:09 +0400 Message-ID: <000e01bfe103$dcd6f650$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20000628150234.A32686@linux-ws.kg-hittfeld.local> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 I am not sure what do you mean. _use_lo simply does very general parsing of 'command --help' output. But note, that --help is de facto standard for GNU long options; and help format is more or less (actually, much less :-) similar between commands. What you want is a function that would parse general output of arbitrary command and generate useful completion out of this. I doubt that it ever be possible. Please, note, that as far as I can tell --help parsing is used only in three completion functions currently - _configure, _tar and _gdb. Of these three I believe that _tar and _gdb use it only for historical reasons - the single command where this makes sense is _configure. Note, that parsing of help text has many drawbacks. You cannot supply description; you cannot define mutualy excluding options; you cannot define mutually dependent options or option sets. I.e. _arguments is much better suited - with the additional cost of writing separate function for every command. Are you aware about _arguments and it's possibilities? -andrej > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Kopfermann [mailto:kopfermann@trio-hittfeld.de] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:03 PM > To: Zsh Users > Subject: --help trough _use_lo , but how with -h style? > > > Hi again, > After I got the information about the use of `compdef _use_lo > x y z' to > have x y and z commands completed I asked myself: > How can i do it with these `-h' commands. e.g. mutt only wants > -x flags. i would like to have such commands being completed just > like the much nicer to read --x commands. is there a function > already for these kind of commands? (I am not talking about a > specific mutt completion though that may be nice, too.) > > BTW: i used to use perl for having --help commands being > completed and i have a function that does it with -h commands , > too, but it would be much nicer, if there was such a function in > plain-zsh already. Thats why i ask. > > -- > And in the end the love you take > is equal to the love you make > THE BEATLES > >