Re: ps http<tab> completion to get procees ID

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 18:16:57 +0200:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > It seems to only complete processes from the current terminal.  For
> > example, if I just do 'ps <TAB>', I get:
> 
> > I guess that's due to _pids running 'ps' without further arguments.
> > Shouldn't the command be configurable?  I'd love to have it show all
> > user processes (or even all processes when sudoed).
> 
> It is configurable. The command style is not specific to kill.
> 
> I'd recommend using tag labels and use the _next_tags widget if you want
> it to pick-up a wider range of processes. Something like the following:
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*:(kill|lsof|ps|ss):*:' tag-order processes:-tty 'processes:-mine:user\ processes' 'processes:-all:all\ processes'
> zstyle ':completion:*:([sl]trace|truss|gcore|gdb):*:' tag-order processes:-mine 'processes:-all:all\ processes'
> case $OSTYPE in
>   *bsd*)
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps -o pid,ppid,state,start,args'
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes-mine' command "ps U $EUID -o pid,ppid,state,start,args"
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes-all' command "ps A -o pid,ppid,state,start,args"
>   ;;
>   *)
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps -o pid,s,ppid,stime,args'
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes-mine' command "ps -u $EUID -o pid,s,ppid,stime,args"
>     zstyle ':completion:*:processes-all' command 'ps -e -o pid,s,ppid,stime,args'
>   ;;
> esac

Thank you!