a simple question

a simple question

[Andy Spiegl]

I've got an alias "sshadmin" for "ssh -l admin"
In order to have the normal ssh-completion for this alias
I thought it suffices to say:
 compdef _ssh sshadmin

But I was wrong. :-(
Any ideas?

Thanks,
 Andy.

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Re: a simple question

[Peter Stephenson]

Andy Spiegl wrote:
> I've got an alias "sshadmin" for "ssh -l admin"
> In order to have the normal ssh-completion for this alias
> I thought it suffices to say:
>  compdef _ssh sshadmin
> 
> But I was wrong. :-(

Only in that usually it's unnecessary, unless you have turned on the
option "completealiases".  If you haven't, the alias is expanded by
completion so the completion code sees "ssh -l admin" and everything
works.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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Re: a simple question

[Andy Spiegl]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Only in that usually it's unnecessary, unless you have turned on the
> option "completealiases".  If you haven't, the alias is expanded by
> completion so the completion code sees "ssh -l admin" and everything
> works.
Ah, great!  Didn't know that feature yet.
Only that I _dont_ have completealiases turned on and it still doesn't work.

In a "zsh -f" session it does work so it must be something in my settings...
On the other hand, with an ls-alias (alias lh="\ls -lFBh") it works.
So why not with sshadmin?  Any idea?

Thanks,
 Andy.

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Re: a simple question

[Peter Stephenson]

Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Only in that usually it's unnecessary, unless you have turned on the
> > option "completealiases".  If you haven't, the alias is expanded by
> > completion so the completion code sees "ssh -l admin" and everything
> > works.
> Ah, great!  Didn't know that feature yet.
> Only that I _dont_ have completealiases turned on and it still doesn't work.

You mean you've tried and completion after

  ssh -l admin

works while completion after

  alias sshadmin="ssh -l admin"
  sshadmin

doesn't?

> In a "zsh -f" session it does work so it must be something in my settings...

I presume you mean even after "compinit", otherwise you're using a
different form of completion.

> On the other hand, with an ls-alias (alias lh="\ls -lFBh") it works.
> So why not with sshadmin?  Any idea?

Try using the debug binding "^X?" to generate an output file which
should show you if it's ever getting as far as ssh completion or is
trying completion for something else.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

Re: a simple question

[Andy Spiegl]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> You mean you've tried and completion after
>   ssh -l admin
> works while completion after
>   alias sshadmin="ssh -l admin"
>   sshadmin
> doesn't?
Correct.

> > In a "zsh -f" session it does work so it must be something in my settings...
> 
> I presume you mean even after "compinit"
You are right :-)

> Try using the debug binding "^X?" to generate an output file which
> should show you if it's ever getting as far as ssh completion or is
> trying completion for something else.
^Xh gives me:

lama:~>ssh
tags in context :completion::complete:ssh::
    argument-1 options  (_arguments _ssh)
tags in context :completion::complete:ssh:argument-1:
    hosts users  (_alternative _ssh) 
    hosts        (_hosts _combination _ssh_hosts _alternative _ssh) 
    hosts        (_ssh_hosts    _alternative    _ssh    _normal) 
    users        (_users _combination _ssh_users _alternative _ssh)


lama:~>sshadmin
tags in context :completion::complete:::
    all-files  (_files _default)
tags in context :completion::complete:ssh::
    argument-rest options  (_arguments _ssh _ssh)

The files generated after ^X? differ pretty much, but both mention _ssh.
I put them here:
 http://spiegl.de/zsh/zshdump-ssh.gz
 http://spiegl.de/zsh/zshdump-sshadmin.gz

Thanks,
 Andy.

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