Re: completion

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2015-01-07 10:48:39 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2015 7:15 AM, "Vincent Lefevre" <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> > If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on
> > which field some given word will match.
> 
> This is actually intentional, so that a single style can be applied to
> multiple contexts.  The expected use is that the wildcard will usually be
> at the tail of the context string, so it's a shorthand to avoid having to
> write out all the trailng colons.

But the ambiguity shouldn't be intentional. The syntax is:

:completion:FUNCTION:COMPLETER:COMMAND:ARGUMENT:tag.
___________1________2_________3_______4________5

Now consider one of the examples:

      zstyle ':completion:*:complete:*' matcher-list [...]

If * matches everything, then this could mean either

  :completion:[any function]:complete:[any cmd]:[any arg]:[any tag]

or

  :completion:[any function]:[any completer]:complete:[any arg]:[any tag]

or

  :completion:[any function]:[any completer]:[any cmd]:complete:[any tag]

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