From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: completion within a function
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:45:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aAT80poLpDDaSeYwfO=J4z5t8YaNCvL1xJQtuYpOFdWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520ce98a-4394-726d-3d12-8ef414e881c9@eastlink.ca>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 4:32 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> new_var=$( complete_it $1 )
>
> where 'complete _it' is a function that does just what TAB would do on
> the command line.
Along with what Roman said ... where does the context come from?
That is, if you were completing (the string represented by) $1 on the
command line, you have the whole rest of the line, or at least
everything preceding it, to establish how the input should be
interpreted. So it can't be as simple as passing a single word as
argument.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-29 15:24 Ray Andrews
2020-12-29 18:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-29 19:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-29 19:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-12-29 21:04 ` Ray Andrews
2020-12-29 21:21 ` Ray Andrews
2020-12-29 22:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-29 21:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-30 0:31 ` Ray Andrews
2020-12-30 4:34 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-12-30 16:45 ` Ray Andrews
2020-12-30 17:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-30 20:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-30 20:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-30 20:50 ` Ray Andrews
2020-12-30 21:31 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-12-30 22:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-30 22:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-30 23:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-31 0:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-31 0:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-31 0:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-31 0:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-12-31 1:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-31 21:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-01 0:12 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-02 0:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-02 22:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 0:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 0:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 1:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 2:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 2:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 3:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 23:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-05 19:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 17:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 0:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-31 1:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-30 6:45 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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