From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Q: _regex_arguments problem
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 20:25:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111202202524.1849e9d7@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <111202101428.ZM7415@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:14:28 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 9:37pm, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
> }
> } I've found so far, that the only utility function, that can
> } complete anything-but-space-separated list of values is _values.
> } And it accepts only predefined values. My list of ids is not
> } static, it is fetched from remote server via executing special
> } ssh command, so I guess this problem is not related to _regex_*
> } completion, this is just not possible...
>
> The typical way you'd do this with the plain _arguments function
> is with the ->state mechanism: use _arguments to figure out the
> context and set a state, then in a 'case' or the like on the state
> value you call your ssh command to get the list of values and then
> call _values with that.
The documentation says the actions supported by _regex_arguments are the
same as those supported by _arguments, although I didn't try it; in nay
case I don't see why you shouldn't use a function to complete for the
context, either.
You'll probably need to make _regex_arguments skip up to the last comma,
so you don't need to figure out a valid last of values until you know
you're trying to complete one. I think _ip does that sort of thing.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 13:14 Alexey I. Froloff
2011-12-02 15:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-02 16:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-02 17:37 ` Alexey I. Froloff
2011-12-02 18:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-02 20:25 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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