status of the cssh autocompletion

status of the cssh autocompletion

[Thomas Kupper]

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Hi,

I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
autocompletion for cssh. Even google didn't show any user which modified
or extended the _cssh file.

Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?

Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there an
interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the process.


Have a good day
Thomas

Re: status of the cssh autocompletion

[Peter Stephenson]

On Mon, 22 May 2017 15:53:09 +0200
Thomas Kupper <thomas.kupper@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
> autocompletion for cssh. Even google didn't show any user which modified
> or extended the _cssh file.
> 
> Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?
> 
> Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there an
> interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the process.

There will almost certainly be no other reason than that nobody else has
produced an update yet.

For a few completions, the developers of the utility supply their own
versions of the completion function in their distribution, which allows
them to match the completion to the version of their firmware.  But this
is a rare case, and usually when that happens the more limited on in the
zsh distribution would be deleted.

For everything else --- simply send a patch to update the function(s) to
the zsh-workers@zsh.org list and we'll gladly add it to the distribution.

pws

Re: status of the cssh autocompletion

[Thomas Kupper]

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2017 15:53:09 +0200
> Thomas Kupper <thomas.kupper@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
> > autocompletion for cssh. Even google didn't show any user which modified
> > or extended the _cssh file.
> >
> > Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?
> >
> > Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there
> an
> > interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the
> process.
>
> There will almost certainly be no other reason than that nobody else has
> produced an update yet.
>
> For a few completions, the developers of the utility supply their own
> versions of the completion function in their distribution, which allows
> them to match the completion to the version of their firmware.  But this
> is a rare case, and usually when that happens the more limited on in the
> zsh distribution would be deleted.
>
> For everything else --- simply send a patch to update the function(s) to
> the zsh-workers@zsh.org list and we'll gladly add it to the distribution.
>
> pws
>
Thanx Peter for the explanation, I'll send the patch to workers@zsh when I
finished patching the current one up.

Have a good day

Re: status of the cssh autocompletion

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 22,  3:53pm, Thomas Kupper wrote:
}
} I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
} autocompletion for cssh.

I haven't explicitly tried using _bash_completions for cssh, but I don't
know of any reason it wouldn't work.

} Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?

My own usage of cssh is pretty regimented -- I essentially never need to
complete anything, because I'm always running one of the same 3 or 4
commands that are already in my history.  I don't think there's anything
obvious other than lack of need/interest.

} Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there an
} interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the process.

Send it to zsh-workers@zsh.org and we will review and most likely add it
to the distribution.

Re: status of the cssh autocompletion

[Thomas Kupper]

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On May 22,  3:53pm, Thomas Kupper wrote:
> }
> } I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
> } autocompletion for cssh.
>
> I haven't explicitly tried using _bash_completions for cssh, but I don't
> know of any reason it wouldn't work.
>
> } Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?
>
> My own usage of cssh is pretty regimented -- I essentially never need to
> complete anything, because I'm always running one of the same 3 or 4
> commands that are already in my history.  I don't think there's anything
> obvious other than lack of need/interest.
>
> } Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there
> an
> } interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the
> process.
>
> Send it to zsh-workers@zsh.org and we will review and most likely add it
> to the distribution.
>

Thanx Bart,

I haven't tried to use the bash completions for _cssh. I'll give it a go.
But will work on the extension of the current _cssh ZSH completion anyway
and will send it to workers@zsh

Have a good day