-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 02.06.2016 07:30, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On May 19, 10:50am, Paul Seyfert wrote: > } > } I crosschecked that also > } > } compdef _gnu_generic fancyalias > } > } does not result in any suggestions. My understanding is that the > } _gnu_generic function does not know about the fancyalias / I cannot use > } the fancyalias inside the _gnu_generic function. > } > } Is there a way to make _gnu_generic work for aliases? > > Have you tried "setopt complete_aliases" ? Yes, I created a small test setup attached: put "testme.sh" in /tmp/ start zsh with NORMALPROMPT > zsh -f defaultprompt > source testrc defaultprompt > /tmp/testme.sh - works fine defaultprompt > fancy - nothing. > Unfortunately it's not easily possible to have it both ways, that is, to > treat an alias as something you can "compdef" and ALSO have the alias be > expanded to use the completion for the command it eventually becomes. > > This might work a lot of the time: > > setopt complete_aliases > _expand_alias_and_complete() { > if [[ -o complete_aliases && -n $aliases[$words[1]] ]]; then > words[1]=( $aliases[$words[1]] ) > _complete > else > return 1 > fi > } > zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete __expand_alias_and_complete I have that block commented out in testrc. Once I include it, it works! > > Needs tweaking based on the rest of your current "completer" style, but > hopefully you get the idea. > So far it seems to work as-is when enabeling all other completion settings (I didn't put all in testrc). Thanks! Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXUAiCAAoJEPOmP9OjPXmroU8P/20/9V+MZVTYUzEfN8V+G/rG 4XyFcWKVSUTlKV2dnSjnUzk4W1+9nOLphakU5ytd8vcDjg9iyNYi7gQ1tombg+2q kKtgizmdW08wn4IroDDdO2CQ2tx5C87y9GSw5/QI9YS/b9+0W2R8APTpHthuj4si UwOSIXkGkIrYVSYBcYZjrW4LJarO6gDyUVZg4XKEunjLwLYbKALDGSKdBc8ewUcI wiYeXiYGyn79wa+VjzGCOG80/uA9TJKjJG6pCbMvDyMVUH/DoUoWR4GKBWivOz3s I6HHUcL4E8JHKucbckobiBNPxkx6Ei7c2o/hrT1kWPJrv3VQXnqfe6/yzgJzyjhM zVFhAyZkqxPUV7cB4WXrMi6jHR7ZXB61PVnp6IncIAYxU1qvQiumy9tpDe8sdc8U y0hSFzqbeI3fdabZvjX3Zmww91iBB8Iyhg7TCEKA7Dkgr04whAAcJvOeXsesLYf4 tHigU8g7VZWOBMV7TnxxJKxCiPTEd+uAv7OHJ7qUIjxDh1lX0+DbOfxY0dP5O9Xc mz2/YbJzf13bKMw0RHXMwuI8uUGofNXDvBZy9Zr2ayPzBMXMmGRwV4paBPXdWrGw 1PC7eNad1Tm+cwpixRNU+2O5KW3EpOBAG57WSOQLpg2Td3DwBCAb/EJ40GA8soY7 +zFlbtfuZBNX8ULtRQk5 =d2KE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----