From: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: need for a fancier _pick_variant?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:29:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014062933.GC13457@lorien.emufarm.org> (raw)
I was debugging why
% diff -u foo ba<TAB>
failed to complete "bar" on Solaris. The reason, of course is that
_diff_options calls
_pick_variant -c diff 'gnu=GNU' unix -v
which doesn't match anything for Solaris diff, so the generic unix diff
options are chosen, and the result is thrown by the -u.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any way of distinguishing Solaris diff by
its output, short of a brittle check of its usage statement. I can,
however, reliably check what options are available for it by running
"what /usr/bin/diff", noting SunOS, and the OS version.
I tried a very naive
_pick_variant -c what -r diff solaris=SunOS unix '$(whence diff)'
as the test for an elif clause in _diff_options, but it didn't work. On
re-reading the man page, I misunderstood what -r did, but that's only
the tip of the iceberg here.
I next tried
elif [[ $(what $(whence $cmd)) == *SunOS\ 5.<9->* ]]; then
which seems to work pretty nicely. Would you suggest that as a
solution, or to try to beef up _pick_variant to support running
auxiliary programs as tests?
Hm. In investigating all this, I noticed that all the completion
directories end up duplicated in $fpath, which seems to be done in
compaudit. This seems to happen on 4.0.5 on Solaris, 4.1.1 on Solaris,
and 4.1.1 on Linux, FWIW.
Thanks,
Danek
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-14 6:29 Danek Duvall [this message]
2003-10-22 6:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-22 6:51 ` Dan Nelson
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