kill _pids completion - arguments for ps

kill _pids completion - arguments for ps

[Sagar Shah]

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Hi,

One of the alternatives for completing the kill command is a list of
pids generated by the _pids function.

_pids calls the command 'ps' which just returns the child processes of
the shell.

I'd actually prefer to return all processes owened by the current user 
(ps -u $LOGNAME on linux) and i get the impression there's a way to
configure the completion system to use a custom command for the ps call
or a custom set of arguments. However i can't figure out how to do this.

This question was asked in the list a few years ago, but no solution
using the new syntax.

Am i right in thinking this is posible?  Or do i need to copy the entire
_pids function and hack it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Sagar

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Sagar Shah <sagarshah@softhome.net>

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Re: kill _pids completion - arguments for ps

[Oliver Kiddle]

Sagar Shah wrote:
> 
> One of the alternatives for completing the kill command is a list of
> pids generated by the _pids function.
> 
> _pids calls the command 'ps' which just returns the child processes of
> the shell.
> 
> I'd actually prefer to return all processes owened by the current user
> (ps -u $LOGNAME on linux) and i get the impression there's a way to

Wherever the completion system runs a command like ps to generate
matches, it checks the `command' style so that you can specify a
replacement command. So pick your command and set the style:

e.g.:

zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps -o pid,s,nice,stime,args'

If you only want to affect the kill command then:

zstyle ':completion:*:kill:*:processes' command 'ps -o pid,s,nice,stime,args'

Oliver