From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Completing multiple states with _arguments
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:20:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110102034.679387f9@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTintH3mBrt+_csUYuJX8FM76_j6AhPXjoXCU2WXP@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:49:41 +0100
Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How do I deal with multiple states when completing with _arguments?
>
> local context state line
> typeset -A opt_args
>
> _arguments \
> ':: :->something-optional-before-files' \
> '*:: :->file' && ret=0
>
> # Now what?
Usually you would use "case $state ... esac" to handle the states, with
matches against something-optional-before-files, file, etc. There are
quite a few uses of this if you search for $state in completion.
--
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 22:49 Nikolai Weibull
2010-11-10 10:20 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2010-11-10 11:23 ` Nikolai Weibull
2010-11-10 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-11-10 12:37 ` Nikolai Weibull
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