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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: The zsh equivalent to Bash's "complete -W" to complete a command using only a list of words
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 07:49:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160409074905.ZM23330@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160409144923.1e7bafe7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

On Apr 9,  2:49pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 16:40:52 +0300
} Shlomi Fish <shlomif@gmail.com> wrote:
} > In addition to that I was told on IRC that I can do this:
} > 
} >     compdef "_values $description $val1 $val2 $val3 $val4..." Theme
} > 
} > Where $description is a short description and $val1 $val2 are the values.
} 
} Yes, it does work... you learn something new every day.

And of course to literally satisfy the "I want a shell command/built-in
for this" request, there's always the venerable

    compctl -X $description -k "($val1 $val2 $val3 $val4...)" Theme



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-09 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-09 10:27 Shlomi Fish
2016-04-09 11:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-09 13:40   ` Shlomi Fish
2016-04-09 13:49     ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-09 14:49       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CANy4znWAhsamgKrpOqmWCNqOWuzwzvXRLSWL6=X8bo6CeH-eZg__45121.4810986587$1460209332$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2016-04-09 17:45     ` Daniel Shahaf

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