From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Nicholas Wiles <nhwiles@gmail.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Using _describe for completions.
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:42:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507830129.2130588.1136787904.3976E009@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5CD230C2-0103-456B-A567-F63FE6CECFE1@gmail.com>
Nicholas Wiles wrote on Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:19 -0700:
> Hello fellow users, fist time poster. I apologize if this is not the right place.
>
> On zsh 5.2 I am trying to write a completion function using the _describe builtin.
>
> __foo_complete_func() {
> list=(foo:'description for foo’ bar:'description for bar')
Please don't use Unicode quotes in code samples, that makes harder to try them.
> _describe '’ list && _ret=0
What's this _ret thing? Your completion function is overwriting a
global variable named "_ret".
> }
>
> compdef __foo_complete_func foo
>
> When autocompleting just “foo ” I get the expected:
>
> bar -- description for bar
> foo -- description for foo
>
> However when tab completing "foo b" I get no matches shown. I don’t understand why this is. I would expect to get the completion "foo bar”
>
> Any ideas?
Works for me in 'zsh -f' + 'autoload compinit; compinit' + (pasting your
code) + 'foo b<TAB>'.
I would make the first argument to _describe non-empty just in case
there's a null argument elision somewhere, but for clarity, it works for
me as posted.
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2017-10-12 16:19 Nicholas Wiles
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