From: Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@virgin.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: _pick_variant
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:34:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201113093443.afd8d11e641eedb409c2ee37@virgin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aD09dOMmUHkWZneSEjp0t7S1eWhJx6sc7LBxWqGmP8Ow@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:35:05 -0800 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:41 AM Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@virgin.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > This works as expected. However, if I rename it to md5() { ... }, zsh
> > hangs when I type
> > md5 a<tab> to expand a filename.
> >
>
> Zsh is invoking the completion for the system default "md5" command
> (sometimes found as /sbin/md5). That completion attempts to run "md5
> --version" to find out whether it is completing for GNU md5 or some other
> variant.
There's no md5 command anywhere on my system. I have md5{sum,pass} and that's it.
> Your function doesn't handle that, and invokes xclip in the
> background, which hangs.
Well, the quick solution is to change the name, as I did. However, when you say my "function doesn't handle that" this seems to imply that there's a way it could handle that situation. How?
And THX for the response.
--
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-13 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-13 17:41 _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-12 18:35 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
2020-11-12 18:40 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-12 19:07 ` _pick_variant Ray Andrews
2020-11-12 19:17 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-12 19:20 ` Fwd: _pick_variant JAMES R CUTLER
2020-11-13 9:34 ` Thomas Lauer [this message]
2020-11-13 10:42 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-13 10:57 ` _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-13 11:18 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-13 22:26 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
2020-11-14 9:56 ` _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-14 19:21 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
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