completion for "su -" does not work

completion for "su -" does not work

[Fourhundred Thecat]

Hello,

completion for the su command has many fancy features. For instance,

  su -s <TAB>

will offer all available shells on the system. Very nice, but I wonder
if I will ever need this. However, basic completion does not work:

  su - <TAB>

does not offer me anything. In bash, I could do

  su - <TAB>

and it would offer me available users, to which I could switch. Are
there any plans adding support for "su -" completion ?

(tested on zsh 4.3.17)

Cheers,

Re: completion for "su -" does not work

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 10,  9:46pm, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
}
} Are there any plans adding support for "su -" completion ?
} 
} (tested on zsh 4.3.17)

4.3.17 is almost 5 years old.  Before asking if there are "plans" you
should be trying a newer version.

There is user completion following "su -" and has been since 5.0.8.
There have also been updates for "su" variation on different OSs.

Re: completion for "su -" does not work

[Fourhundred Thecat]

> On 2016-11-10 22:26, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 10,  9:46pm, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> }
> } Are there any plans adding support for "su -" completion ?
> } 
> } (tested on zsh 4.3.17)
> 
> 4.3.17 is almost 5 years old.  Before asking if there are "plans" you
> should be trying a newer version.

fair enough

> There is user completion following "su -" and has been since 5.0.8.
> There have also been updates for "su" variation on different OSs.

I have installed zsh 5.2, but su - behaves same as on 4.3.17, AFAICT.

  su - <TAB>

does not complete users, it only completes files/dirs in CWD

  zsh --version
  zsh 5.2 (x86_64-debian-linux-gnu)

Re: completion for "su -" does not work

[Daniel Shahaf]

Fourhundred Thecat wrote on Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 08:53:23 +0100:
> I have installed zsh 5.2, but su - behaves same as on 4.3.17, AFAICT.
> 
>   su - <TAB>
> 
> does not complete users, it only completes files/dirs in CWD

That has already been fixed for 5.3:

% git log zsh-5.2.. -- **/_su | me
commit cf01ad96d4758c602b41df59bf0fe1330a88b800
Author: Oliver Kiddle
Date:   Thu Jun 9 22:51:18 2016 +0200

    38639: fix username completion after -, update options and get user shell with getent

Cheers,

Daniel

Re: completion for "su -" does not work

[Fourhundred Thecat]

> On 2016-11-11 09:42, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> That has already been fixed for 5.3:
> 
> % git log zsh-5.2.. -- **/_su | me
> commit cf01ad96d4758c602b41df59bf0fe1330a88b800
> Author: Oliver Kiddle
> Date:   Thu Jun 9 22:51:18 2016 +0200
> 
>     38639: fix username completion after -, update options and get user shell with getent

thanks, I extracted the new completion file

  cf01ad96d4758c602b41df59bf0fe1330a88b800:Completion/Unix/Command/_su

and it even works in zsh 4.3.17

thanks a lot,