Re: Completing multiple states with _arguments

[Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 13:11, Peter Stephenson
<Peter.Stephenson@csr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:23:50 +0100
> Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
>> >> local context state line
>> >> typeset -A opt_args
>> >>
>> >> _arguments \
>> >>   ':: :->something-optional-before-files' \
>> >>   '*:: :->file' && ret=0
>> >>
>> >> # Now what?
>>
>> 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?
>
> I think you do need to set up tags here, at least most scripts do and I
> haven't tried without.  However, that should all be standard: looping
> over the states is fine, then use the usual _wanted stuff inside the
> case and the tags get sorted out automatically, in principle.  There's
> nothing to stop you using _alternative, either.
>
> In short, just adding the loop over the state to the sort of stuff that
> usually appears in the "case" here should be OK.

OK, thank you.  I’ll report my findings.