* Question about matching completions with descriptions
@ 2018-06-08 18:13 Nicholas Wiles
2018-06-08 18:38 ` Daniel Shahaf
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From: Nicholas Wiles @ 2018-06-08 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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I have a question about the _describe builtin.
I am building a binary that provides dynamic completions using a completion
function.
Is to possible to provide completions to _describe that will be matched not
only on the text of the completion but also on words/text in the
description? Or, is it possible to turn off completion matching entirely
and have zsh present the user with a verbatim set of completions provided
to compadd or _describe? Thanks in advance!
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* Re: Question about matching completions with descriptions
2018-06-08 18:13 Question about matching completions with descriptions Nicholas Wiles
@ 2018-06-08 18:38 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-06-10 1:14 ` Nicholas Wiles
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Shahaf @ 2018-06-08 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicholas Wiles, zsh-users
Nicholas Wiles wrote on Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:13 -0700:
> I have a question about the _describe builtin.
> I am building a binary that provides dynamic completions using a completion
> function.
>
> Is to possible to provide completions to _describe that will be matched not
> only on the text of the completion but also on words/text in the
> description?
I asked this once and the answer was that that wasn't possible. I'd
have linked you to the thread but I looked for it and can't find it :(
> Or, is it possible to turn off completion matching entirely
> and have zsh present the user with a verbatim set of completions provided
> to compadd or _describe? Thanks in advance!
Does passing -U (and possibly -V) to compadd do what you need?
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* Re: Question about matching completions with descriptions
2018-06-08 18:38 ` Daniel Shahaf
@ 2018-06-10 1:14 ` Nicholas Wiles
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicholas Wiles @ 2018-06-10 1:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Shahaf; +Cc: zsh-users
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It looks like I need to match on the description prior to calling
_describe. Using -U and -V together achieved what I was trying to do. The
kicker was also adding compstate[insert]="automenu" to prevent common
prefix insertion which when you are matching within descriptions the common
prefix could be empty!
Thanks!
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:38 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
wrote:
> Nicholas Wiles wrote on Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:13 -0700:
> > I have a question about the _describe builtin.
> > I am building a binary that provides dynamic completions using a
> completion
> > function.
> >
> > Is to possible to provide completions to _describe that will be matched
> not
> > only on the text of the completion but also on words/text in the
> > description?
>
> I asked this once and the answer was that that wasn't possible. I'd
> have linked you to the thread but I looked for it and can't find it :(
>
> > Or, is it possible to turn off completion matching entirely
> > and have zsh present the user with a verbatim set of completions provided
> > to compadd or _describe? Thanks in advance!
>
> Does passing -U (and possibly -V) to compadd do what you need?
>
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