another compctl question

another compctl question

[Adam R. Paul]

Hello,

	I'm attempting to make a compctl for a command (scoadmin) that has 
arguments (case insensitive) that look like:
	
...
SCOadmin Event Logs Manager
Security Profile Manager
SNMP Agent Manager
Software Manager
Sysadmsh Legacy
...

What I would like is to be able to type 'scoadmin sec<tab>' and get 'scoadmin 
security profile manager', or 'scoadmin "security profile manager"', but I'm 
having much difficulty gettting the options into an array w/o word splitting on 
the options.  What I have now (that doesn't work) is:

compctl -k ("`scoadmin -t | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | \
            awk '{printf(\"\\"%s\\" \",
$0}'`") scoadmin
            
Entering 'scoadmin <tab>' lists:

\"scoadmin  \"snmp      \"sysadmsh  event       logs        profile
\"security  \"software  agent       legacy\"    manager\"

as completions, which isn't too useful...

Any ideas? (This is zsh-2.6beta20 on SCO OpenServer 5, BTW)

Blesssed be,
	_Adam
	

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Re: another compctl question

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 21, 12:18pm, Adam R. Paul wrote:
} Subject: another compctl question
}
} compctl -k ("`scoadmin -t | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | \
}             awk '{printf(\"\\"%s\\" \",
} $0}'`") scoadmin

Try this; I don't actually have scoadmin to try it:

    compctl -k "(${(L@)$(scoadmin -t):gs/ /\\\ /})" scoadmin

Aside to zsh-workers:

If (L) is the flag to lowercase a parameter expansion, shouldn't (:L) work
as a modifier, too?  (I know there's (:l), but consistency would be nice.)
Similarly for (U) and (:U).

Aside, part 2:

It would be nice if there were a specific error message for an unrecognized
modifier, rather than just "closing brace expected".

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