Re: [solved] Re: _gnu_generic for aliases

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Jun 2, 12:20pm, Paul Seyfert wrote:
}
} defaultprompt > fancy -<TAB><TAB><TAB>
} 
} nothing.

Aha.

The _set_command utility doesn't attempt to do anything with aliases,
so it never finds a command to pass to _call_program as the thing to
run to generate the --help listing, so there's nothing for _arguments
to parse even though it *is* being called via _gnu_generic.

} > This might work a lot of the time:
} > 
} > _expand_alias_and_complete() {
[...]
} > }
} > zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete __expand_alias_and_complete

Typo, should only be one leading underscore in _expand_alias_and_complete
(my error).

} I have that block commented out in testrc. Once I include it, it works!

That has to be accidental, because _expand_alias_and_complete should work
almost exactly like completion with complete_aliases NOT set.  I don't
think this is an actual solution.

I think _set_command needs tweaking to handle [[ -o complete_aliases ]]
but I can't look at this myself for a while.