compctl help needed for IRC channel names

compctl help needed for IRC channel names

[Aleksandr Miroslav]

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My IRC bouncer (ZNC), writes out IRC logs into directories that look like
this:

/path/network1/#channel1
/path/network1/##channel2
/path/network1/user1
/path/network2/#channel3
/path/network2/##channel4
/path/network2/user2

I would like compctl to autocomplete for me with these options:

channel1 channel2 user1 channel3 channel4 user2

But, when I choose channel1 or whatever, it should return the full real
path (/path/network1/#channel1)

How can I do this?

Re: compctl help needed for IRC channel names

[Aleksandr Miroslav]

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I solved this by writing a small script that listed the main directories
and converted them to an abbreviated form.

I feed the abbreviated list to compctl -k, and then I also added a
"converter" which takes the abbreviated form and converts it back to the
full path, which I use in my command.



On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>
wrote:

> My IRC bouncer (ZNC), writes out IRC logs into directories that look like
> this:
>
> /path/network1/#channel1
> /path/network1/##channel2
> /path/network1/user1
> /path/network2/#channel3
> /path/network2/##channel4
> /path/network2/user2
>
> I would like compctl to autocomplete for me with these options:
>
> channel1 channel2 user1 channel3 channel4 user2
>
> But, when I choose channel1 or whatever, it should return the full real
> path (/path/network1/#channel1)
>
> How can I do this?
>
>
>

Re: compctl help needed for IRC channel names

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 7,  1:13pm, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
} 
} My IRC bouncer (ZNC), writes out IRC logs into directories that look like
} this:
} 
} /path/network1/#channel1
} /path/network1/##channel2
} /path/network1/user1
} /path/network2/#channel3
} /path/network2/##channel4
} /path/network2/user2
} 
} I would like compctl to autocomplete for me

It'd be more typical nowadays to run 'compinit' from your startup files
and use the "new" (now 15+ years old) completion system.

} with these options:
} 
} channel1 channel2 user1 channel3 channel4 user2

Meaning these are what show up in a completion listing, e.g., on ^D or
when TAB produces an ambiguous result; but when one is substituted into
the command line, the full path should appear?

} But, when I choose channel1 or whatever, it should return the full real
} path (/path/network1/#channel1)
} 
} How can I do this?


-- 
Barton E. Schaefer

Re: compctl help needed for IRC channel names

[Bart Schaefer]

[Oops, that got sent accidentally before I was finished.]

} } But, when I choose channel1 or whatever, it should return the full real
} } path (/path/network1/#channel1)
} } 
} } How can I do this?

With compinit, you'd do something similar to the compctl solution that
you worked out, but it might be a bit simpler.

One thing you haven't told us is whether you want this to apply every
time you complete one of these file paths, no matter what the command
name might be, or whether this is specific to a particular command.
The approach might be somewhat different, depending.

With compinit, you define a list of functions via the "completer" style.
To generically perform your desired operation on file paths, you would
write a completer fuction and include it in the completer style at a
point you feel appropriate.  For a particular command, you'd write a
function that generates the list of matches and associate it with the
command name by using "compdef".

If you're interested in following up on this approach, some more detail
about the context would be helpful.