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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:46:38 +0000
From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Paul Seyfert <pseyfert@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de>
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Subject: Re: how to revert tab completion order in _arguments or _describe
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Paul Seyfert wrote on Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 16:55:57 +0200:
> One drawback though is that I'm usually most interested in the latest
> version number but the menu completion starts with the oldest version
> number (i think it's alphabetically ordered). Is there a way to tell the
> _describe in the (listversions) state to cycle through the options in a
> specific order? (actually i'm not bound to stick to _describe there, any
> other function would be fine, too)

Yes.  The option to show completions in the order given is either -J or
-V (I don't remember which); both of them are documented under the
'compadd' builtin.