Re: scp completion options

[David Woodfall <dave@dawoodfall.net>]

On Wednesday 27 June 2018 09:15,
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> put forth the proposition:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:06:54 +0100
> David Woodfall <dave@dawoodfall.net> wrote:
> > When I tab complete a scp command such as:
> >
> > scp somefile host:somefolder<tab>
> >
> > I will always get the current local directory as the first completion
> > option if it is any way similar to the name of the remote. Is there a
> > way to stop that behaviour and list remote directories first if I'm
> > scp'ing /to/ a host? In fact I will always have the local directory
> > listed whatever I do.
>
> Hmm... you *should* be able to do something like what's below (which is
> rather simplistic, as a demo).  The idea is: if you're on the third word
> or after, and the second word didn't have a ":" (so is assumed to be a
> local file), then only complete remotely.
>
> But actually I don't see how to get this to work in the case you're
> talking about (hence the question marks), because the tag for remote
> files is just 'files' so will allow it to complete local files.  This
> looks to me like a mistake, and _remote_files should arrange for a
> different tag.
>
> I may be missing something, but if I'm not, changing _remote_files ought
> to be easy.  There may also be other ways of limiting completion, but
> the point remains.
>
>
> scp_comp_helper() {
>   if [[ CURRENT -gt 2 && $words[2] != *:* && ]]; then
>     # Complete remotely only...?
>     reply=('hosts ????')
>   else
>     reply=('hosts files')
>   fi
> }
> zstyle -e ':completion:*:complete:scp:*:' tag-order scp_comp_helper

That's giving me an error on the 'if' line:

custom:597: parse error near `;'

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