From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Nicholas Wiles <nhwiles@gmail.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Question about matching completions with descriptions
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:38:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1528483095.1959306.1401324560.4120FDF5@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF4qJWXNmCoZmcH89mX8GQrR+Hg9hbPsVKyBi-sfF3YO3WLx0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Nicholas Wiles wrote on Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:13 -0700:
> I have a question about the _describe builtin.
> I am building a binary that provides dynamic completions using a completion
> function.
>
> Is to possible to provide completions to _describe that will be matched not
> only on the text of the completion but also on words/text in the
> description?
I asked this once and the answer was that that wasn't possible. I'd
have linked you to the thread but I looked for it and can't find it :(
> Or, is it possible to turn off completion matching entirely
> and have zsh present the user with a verbatim set of completions provided
> to compadd or _describe? Thanks in advance!
Does passing -U (and possibly -V) to compadd do what you need?
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2018-06-08 18:13 Nicholas Wiles
2018-06-08 18:38 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2018-06-10 1:14 ` Nicholas Wiles
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