From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Using the same completion function for various commands
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:18:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin8Kn88NXsK4V4Toos0-ZB2hj4RvhX5QxLarq1N@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101206151124.389fd287@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On 6 December 2010 16:11, Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:03:51 +0100
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2010/12/6 Jérémie Roquet <arkanosis@gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 2010/12/6 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>:
>> >> You can also do this in your .zshrc instead of in the completer if
>> >> you wish, just write
>> >> compdef _foo -p 'foo_*'
>> >>
>> >> At least that's what the documentation says, it doesn't seem to
>> >> work that well.
>> >
>> > It works fine for me with 4.3.10, did I miss something?
>>
>> When i tried compdef _du -p foo_\*, i only got single-letter options
>> completed.
>>
>
> That means it's working perfectly. It's hitting this line at the top of
> _du
>
> _pick_variant gnu=Free\ Soft unix --version /dummy/no-such-file
>
> and deciding, quite reasonably in my opinion, that foo_\* is not a GNU
> variant of du. So it's going to the other branch, where the options are
> simpler.
Ah, er, right. But. Is there any way to combine -p and saying foo=du ?
When I tried compdef _du -p 'foo_*=du' nothing happened.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 14:12 Martin Richter
2010-12-06 14:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-12-06 15:01 ` Jérémie Roquet
2010-12-06 15:03 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-12-06 15:11 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-12-06 15:18 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2010-12-06 16:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-12-06 16:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-12-06 16:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2010-12-06 17:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-12-06 19:39 ` Oliver Kiddle
2010-12-07 11:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-12-06 15:23 ` Martin Richter
2010-12-06 15:31 ` Jérémie Roquet
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