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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
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To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the same completion function for various commands
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:39:21 +0100
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Ah, er, right. But. Is there any way to combine -p and saying foo=du ?
> When I tried compdef _du -p 'foo_*=du' nothing happened.

zstyle ':completion:*:foo_*::variant' command du --version

Peter wrote:
> Why we would ever prefer $words[1] to $service, when this seems
> to be what $service is for?

Aside from the case Bart mentioned, there's also cases like:
  compdef gdu=du

Oliver