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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Oliver=20Kiddle?= <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Can someone help me convert compctl to zstyle, please.
To: Rik <rik@pkl.net>
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 --- Rik <rik@pkl.net> wrote: > Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm having problems with zstyle. TO be perfectly honest, I've not
> managed to actually get it to do anthing, which means I have missed
> something.

Have you at least run compinit? (You need autoload -U compinit;compinit
in your .zshrc or run compinstall similarly from the command line). 

> I used to use:
> listsysctls () { set -A reply $(sysctl -AN ${1%.*}) }
> compctl -K listsysctls sysctl

There is already a pre-written completion for sysctl so this should
already work. If it didn't, you could do:

  _sysctl {
    compadd $(sysctl -AN ${1%.*})
  }
  compdef _sysctl sysctl

> ssh_common=( {,root@}mail.mynetwork.com {,root@}www.mynetwork.com )
> compctl -K ssh_common ssh scp

Here you need something like:
  zstyle ':completion:*:*:(ssh|scp):*:my-accounts' users-hosts \
    root@mail.mynetwork.com root@www.mynetwork.com

Again a completion for ssh has already been written so all the options
should be working. It looks up this style to find out your ssh
accounts.
 
> My basic problem is that an hour of staring at the man page, even
> with
> examples, has not helped in the slightest.

Peter has written a user-guide which has a good chapter on the new
completion system. You might find it easier than the manual. It is
available at http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/zshguide.html

Oliver

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