Re: dynamic reset of completion widget

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Francisco Borges wrote:
> > _optparse_arguments() { _arguments "$@"; }
> >
> > allows you a bit of future-proofing.
> 
> Hum, I can't say I understood what you meant to say here. What I can
> tell you is that so far, I'm only using _arguments.

If _arguments doesn't change, you don't need to worry.

> I have another problem, everytime I complete on foo.py, everything seems
> to go fine but _optparse is still the widget used to complete the
> script, e.g. the python script is called everytime I need to complete.
> 
> So I guess I'm not actually rebinding... The function I'm using is:
> 
> Any hints on how to get this right?
> 
> #autoload
> _optparse(){
> 
>     bar=3D$service
>     eval "`$bar --optcomp-on-the-fly`"
> 
>     if [[ -z $functions[_$bar] ]]; then
>     _message "$bar --optcomp-on-the-fly didn't define _$bar"
>     return 1
>     fi
> 
>     compdef _$bar $bar
>     _$bar "$@"
> }
> 
> BTW, how can I see which widget is being used to complete a command?

print $_comps[foo.py] will tell you what function the system will call
to handle foo.py.

Try adding

print "$bar $_comps[$bar]"  >/tmp/optparse.dbg

after the compdef to see what's going on.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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