From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
To: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Completing multiple states with _arguments
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:23:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimr25=Yab5DHRHg+SOPioh-C6byZ+ieGr+KmtPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101110102034.679387f9@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:20, Peter Stephenson
<Peter.Stephenson@csr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:49:41 +0100
> Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
>> How do I deal with multiple states when completing with _arguments?
>>
>> local context state line
>> typeset -A opt_args
>>
>> _arguments \
>> ':: :->something-optional-before-files' \
>> '*:: :->file' && ret=0
>>
>> # Now what?
>
> Usually you would use "case $state ... esac" to handle the states, with
> matches against something-optional-before-files, file, etc. There are
> quite a few uses of this if you search for $state in completion.
No, no, $state is (something-optional-before-files file) in this case.
Is it as simple as
local s
for s in $state; do
case $s in … esac
done
or do you need to deal with tags and such through _alternative or so?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 22:49 Nikolai Weibull
2010-11-10 10:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-11-10 11:23 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2010-11-10 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-11-10 12:37 ` Nikolai Weibull
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