no completion for zsh switches?

no completion for zsh switches?

[Roman Neuhauser]

hi, i've just found that zsh doesn't complete it's own switches:

roman@freepuppy ~ 104:0 > zsh -^I     -> nothing
roman@freepuppy ~ 104:0 > zsh --help  -> lots of info

this is quite surprising given it otherwise completes even stuff i
wouldn't expect it to (i've grown a habit of hitting tab just about
everywhere :)

is this planned for 4.1.x or 4.0.5 perhaps? does anyone have a function
for this? i've tried to look around the web, but it's kinda hard to come
up with the right query: "zsh compinit" isn't all that specific :)

no a related note: i don't get completion for scp and ssh command lines.
i *think* it worked on one of my previous installs. do i smoke too much,
or is something screwed with this zsh?

it's 4.0.4 from the port (similar to srpm for the linuxers among you)

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Re: no completion for zsh switches?

[Roman Neuhauser]

> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
> Subject: Re: no completion for zsh switches?
> From: Jason Price <jprice@cyberbuzz.gatech.edu>
> Date: 15 Jul 2002 15:00:47 -0400
 
    i think jason's meant to cc the list.

> I can't help you with the zsh completion, but ssh/scp complete out of
> the box, if you tell it where you can go.  I have a file called
> .zsh-styles, that contains:
> 
> zstyle '*:my-accounts' users-hosts jprice:horton.foobar.com jprice:oobleck.foobar.com jprice:zummers.foobar.com jprice:spazzim.foobar.com

    so it's not out of the box, after all. :)
 
> and scp/ssh/rcp/rsh/etc work just fine.
> 
> It works with entries in /etc/host with your username out of the box.

    ah, this is the culprit.
 
> and the completion of -<whatever> works out of the box as well.
 
    they do for ./configure options, makefile targets and whatnot, but
    not for zsh(1) switches. or does it work for you?

> Maybe see what patches were added to zsh in the ports tree?

    well, i don't see anything relevant in /usr/ports/shells/zsh, but
    i'm also pretty sure this port revision is newer than the one i
    installed from. so it *might* have changed. but i don't think that's
    the case.

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