ssh compctl

ssh compctl

[Bek Oberin]

I want to get ssh to complete either user@host or host.  I've figured
out the former, with much rtfm'ing, but not the latter ... how can I
give it alternates?

This is what I have:

# ssh, users-I-ssh-as and hosts
hosts=(tertius.net.au www.tertius.net.au dora.tertius.net.au mycroft.tertius.net.au localhost news.netizen.com.au www.netizen.com.au netizen.com.au hiro.netizen.com.au juanita.netizen.com.au reason.netizen.com.au)
users=(gossamer bekj root)
compctl -k users -S'@' -x 'n[1,@]' -k hosts -- ssh


How do I put alternates in?  Surce it's in the docos, but my eyes
are beginning to glaze over :)

bekj

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Re: ssh compctl

[Peter Stephenson]

Bek Oberin wrote:
> 
> I want to get ssh to complete either user@host or host.  I've figured
> out the former, with much rtfm'ing, but not the latter ... how can I
> give it alternates?

You're supposed to be able to do it with `+', as follows:

compctl -k users -S @ -x 'n[1,@]' -k hosts -- + -k hosts ssh

Maybe the section in the FAQ is clearer about alternatives than the manual,
but maybe not.

The new completion (Completion/User/_rlogin) should probably do this better
too.

--- Completion/User/_rlogin~	Wed Jul 14 13:57:32 1999
+++ Completion/User/_rlogin	Mon Jul 19 13:42:54 1999
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 #compdef rlogin rsh ssh
 
-if [[ CURRENT -eq 2 ]]; then
-  _hosts
+if [[ CURRENT -eq 2 ]];
+  if compset -P 1 '*@'; then
+   _hosts
+  else
+    local nm=${compstate[nmatches]}
+    _hosts
+    [[ nm -eq compstate[nmatches] ]] && compgen -S @ -u
+  fi
 elif [[ CURRENT -eq 3 ]]; then
   compadd - -l
 else
-  compgen -u
+  compgen -S @ -u
 fi


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