Re: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

Re: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Ebourne, Martin]

Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> the whole `(...)' is reported to the completion code (from the lexer
> invoked by it) as one string, with quotes inside it, not at the
> beginning, so the completion code doesn't handle them specially.
> 
> So, to answer your question: in *this* case, with the probably not
> intended interpretation of the command line which can't be changed in
> the completion code, there is no way to find the quotes other than by
> looking e.g. at $BUFFER and $CURSOR of $words[CURRENT] (the former two
> are zle-parameters accessible read-only in the completion code).

I am finding that BUFFER/LBUFFER etc also have the quotes removed which
puzzled me. Does this mean these behave differently in a completion
widget to a ZLE one? Else how can the basic editing functions work?
If so, why do they behave differently?

The words array is the only thing that seems to come through intact.

eg:

BUFFER:example insert ( foo, bar ):
LBUFFER:example insert ( foo, b:
words:example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' ):

> But if the stuff you want to complete really looks different from what
> you sent, there might be a way. And anyway I'd like to know in which
> real-world case you need it, we might have other ideas to help you.

Well what I am completing is SQL. For years I've had a system which lets
me enter SQL directly at the command line to run it in whatever database
(currently Sybase & Oracle). Thus I can use the full power of Zsh
editing & history etc for SQL. It's always done basic completion of
tables & columns using a simple decoding of the statement to select the
right columns, even using compctl.

I re-wrote it when the new completion system came out & improved it then
to handle table aliases & joins etc, and currently it works fine for 90%
of stuff. However, I'm in the process of re-writing it to properly LL(k)
parse the SQL statement so that it produces the correct results all the
time. I've half written the parser and it handles most of the usual stuff
now but I'm having problems with the SQL syntax which includes quotes,
and particularly that which includes brackets.

The things I'm particularly interested in are insert statements,
sub-selects, etc. because they don't currently work.
eg.
  sql insert into TABLE ( column_1, column_2 ) values ( 'value1', 2 )

  sql select column_1 from TABLE_1 where column_2 in ( select values_1
      from TABLE_2 where values_2 in ( 1, 3, 5 ) )

The words array seems to have exactly what I want (just the command being
completed without other stuff on the command line, supplied otherwise
untouched), however although CURRENT tells me which word the cursor is
in, I can't get the character position reliably when () and quotes are
present.

Whole () expressions appear as one word in the words array, which doesn't
bother me because I join it together before parsing it, but does make the
cursor location even more important.

On a related note it has occurred to me I may get problems when offering
completions inside brackets, but I've not got to that yet. I'm hoping to
be able to get around it using PREFIX and SUFFIX or one of their
relatives.

Cheers,

Martin.


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Re: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Apr 16, 11:26am, Ebourne, Martin wrote:
}
} Well what I am completing is SQL.

Sorry, I don't think you're ever going to get this to work as you want it
to, and I don't think Sven should expend any effort on making it work.

The completion system's understanding of quoting is by necessity tightly
tied to shell quoting syntax.  SQL quoting syntax is not equivalent, and
the internals of zsh should not be in the business of understanding the
syntax of other languages.

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RE: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Ebourne, Martin]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Apr 16, 11:26am, Ebourne, Martin wrote:
> }
> } Well what I am completing is SQL.
> Sorry, I don't think you're ever going to get this to work as you want it
> to, and I don't think Sven should expend any effort on making it work.

> The completion system's understanding of quoting is by necessity tightly
> tied to shell quoting syntax.  SQL quoting syntax is not equivalent, and
> the internals of zsh should not be in the business of understanding the
> syntax of other languages.

Of course, the correct solution to this problem (which should have been
obvious anyway) is that these special characters need escaping from the
shell. If you do this then everything works perfectly*. The quote keys etc.
can be programmed to automatically add the escape while entering text into
an sql command and so it is largely transparent anyway - even cutting &
pasting statements in works.

Cheers,

Martin.

(*) So far...

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RE: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Ebourne, Martin]

Norman,

I certainly intend to. I thought about it before but didn't think it
was production quality. Hopefully this time round it will be.

Cheers,

Martin.

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Sent: 16 April 2002 11:59
To: martin.ebourne@csfb.com
Subject: AW: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?


I hope that you post your new SQL tools when you get them done.  Probably
a lot of people could use something like that.  Maybe it could even be
included in the distribution.

NHA
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How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Ebourne, Martin]

Hi,

How do I get access to a version of $PREFIX which includes the quotes within a completion widget?

eg. If I have a completion widget for example which prints the following:

	echo "il:$words:"
	echo "ll:$words[1,CURRENT-1]:"
	echo "pr:$PREFIX:"
	echo "ip:$IPREFIX:"
	echo "qi:$QIPREFIX:"
	echo "aq:$compstate[all_quotes]:"

And then I enter the line:

example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' )
                        ^^^
                        123

And complete on the three successive characters shown, I get:

1:
	il:example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' ):
	ll:example insert:
	pr:(\ foo,\ :
	ip::
	qi::
	aq:\:
2:
	il:example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' ):
	ll:example insert:
	pr:(\ foo,\ :
	ip::
	qi::
	aq:\:
3:
	il:example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' ):
	ll:example insert:
	pr:(\ foo,\ b:
	ip::
	qi::
	aq:\:

Here PREFIX has lost the ' which are present in words[CURRENT]. Is there a way to access a version of PREFIX which has not been so altered? Or alternatively, is there a way of getting the character position of the cursor inside words[CURRENT] so that I could use that?

I note especially that although the cursor is in a different position for 1 & 2 (1: outside the quote, 2: inside the quote), there is no difference in the information available at completion time that I can see.

Cheers,

Martin.

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Re: How to get prefix with quotes in completion widgets?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Ebourne, Martin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How do I get access to a version of $PREFIX which includes the quotes within a completion widget?

Quoting in completion is (and always was) a *very* complicated matter,
because ultimately we just can't reproduce the original quoting in all
cases (e.g. we have f'oo<TAB> on the line and the completion code adds
foobar as a match -- and that's a simple example). So instead of
trying to be perfect the code tries to produce at least correct
results even if that means that some of the special quoting on the
line will be lost. Internally the code uses an unquoted form which is
turned into some kind of generically quoted form when listed or
inserted into the line. In most cases this means backslashes before
special characters. Then we added a bit of special treatment for
strings *starting* with single or double quotes to be able to preserve
at least these.

And these single or double quotes can be found in $compstate[quote]
and $compstate[all_quotes] (and $QIPREFIX, for a different purpose,
but usable anyway). However, this of course only works for correct
shell syntax on the line and in your example:

> ...
> 
> example insert ( 'foo', 'bar' )
>                         ^^^
>                         123

the whole `(...)' is reported to the completion code (from the lexer
invoked by it) as one string, with quotes inside it, not at the
beginning, so the completion code doesn't handle them specially.

So, to answer your question: in *this* case, with the probably not
intended interpretation of the command line which can't be changed in
the completion code, there is no way to find the quotes other than by
looking e.g. at $BUFFER and $CURSOR of $words[CURRENT] (the former two
are zle-parameters accessible read-only in the completion code).

But if the stuff you want to complete really looks different from what
you sent, there might be a way. And anyway I'd like to know in which
real-world case you need it, we might have other ideas to help you.

Bye
  Sven

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