Re: how to use tags in zsh completion system

[Ahmad Ismail <ismail783@gmail.com>]

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Hi Peter Stephenson,

Thank you very much for the guideline. I was hung up with the tags. I
better ignore it for now.


*Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail*

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:01 PM Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> > On 26 August 2020 at 12:28 Ahmad Ismail <ismail783@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter Stephenson,
> >
> > This is the first time I am using a mailing list. So, I am not sure
> whether
> > I am doing it correctly or not.
> >
> > Do I need to always refer to my previous mail or will you be able to
> figure
> > out my previous mails?
>
> Usually people quote the most relevant sections, but people won't
> expect to be able to reconstruct the entire thread from a single email
>
> > Do I need to view my email and its correspondence from
> > https://www.zsh.org/mla/ or everything will be in the inbox?
>
> If you're not on the list, people should copy you so you will see
> everything (it's useful to mention if you're not on the list).
>
> If you are on the list, you'll get everything anyway.
>
> > Being said that, I tried:
> >
> > % scp hosts
>
> You're missing the point here.  A tag is entirely an idea within the
> completion system itself.  Most commands you can just type <TAB>
> and it will complete for you.  Only very occasionally do you
> need to configure it do something else.  When you do,
> then you put commands involving tags in your intialisation file.
> You never need to type them on the command line.
>
> So at this point, the completion system already knows various things
> are possible --- a host name, a file, a username --- depending how
> you're going to build the command line.  The tags are just logical
> names for these things.  (The completion system does a bit
> of guesswork about where to find things that are specific to
> the scp command, so occasionally it needs a bit of help there.)
>
> If you're just starting from scratch with the completion system, i
> suggest you just ignore tags for now.  The system is designed so
> most of the time it should "just work".
>
> If you find a case where you actually need to tell it to be cleverer,
> that's the time to start thinking about tags.  That would be a
> case where multiple completions are possible, but you decide you
> need to complete only one type of thing.  That's a rather
> advanced use.
>
> Until then, I should just try using the system "out of the box"
> and see how that works for you.
>
> Cheers
> pws
>

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