Let me start by saying that I don't understand completion at all, so this may be a) simple or b) impossible or c) have to be done a completely different way. I have a function called 'jump' which I will include below. The function takes one (1) argument from a specific list of arguments. I have defined these arguments as part of the function, although they don't have to be defined that way if there's another way of doing it that would work better for completion. Here's what the function looks like now, and then I'll continue my question below: ## Begin JDIR="$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/2HCKV38EEC~com~p5sys~jump~servers/Documents/Servers" for ARGS in "$@" do case "$ARGS" in m1|macbook) 'Computer - m1 - 6F333BF4-CF2B-4E98-8281-A79667878D40.jump' ;; imac) FILE='Computer - iMac - 4D391A42-B26E-460E-BDDD-88C9CCA882CF.jump' ;; tyrion) FILE='Computer - Tyrion - 2709D3BB-41BE-4410-8606-6B4DEB92F104.jump' ;; mba|macbookair|air) FILE='Computer - MBA - 4690FEF3-F057-4529-998A-9349F616C1FE.jump' ;; mini|mmcolo|macminicolo) FILE='Computer - MacMiniColo - 13033BED-C6CA-4A5E-970E-47D7869EE09E.jump' ;; *) echo " [jump]: Fatal Error! Don't know what to do with arg: $1" return 1 ;; esac done # for args if [[ -f "$JDIR/$FILE" ]] then open -a 'Jump Desktop' "$JDIR/$FILE" else echo "[jump] No file found at '$JDIR/$FILE'." return 1 fi # End As you can see, these files are obscurely named in an obscure folder on my Mac, but I _could_ create links to all of them with the preferred names, such as ~/jump/m1 ~/jump/mini ~/jump/mba ~/jump/tyrion ~/jump/imac and then all the function would need to do is open the file that matches the argument. I'd like to be able to type "jump [tab]" and have all of the options appear (m1, mini, mba, tyrion, imac) or type "jump m[tab]" and have just the ones that start with 'm' appear, etc. I think that's all fairly standard completion stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Also, anyone has or knows of a "beginners' step-by-step guide to understanding completion" please let me know. Thanks, as always! TjL
Le jeu. 8 août 2019 à 15:08, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> a écrit : > Let me start by saying that I don't understand completion at all, So, let's start by saying that I don't understand them much either, and that someone will probably suggest something much simpler using zstyle. > I have a function called 'jump' which I will include below. > The function takes one (1) argument from a specific list of arguments. The following should work: _jump() { local targets=(macbook imac tyrion) _wanted jump_target expl 'Jump target' compadd -a targets } compdef _jump jump Note that you can achieve the same effect by just putting the following in a file named _jump somewhere in your $fpath: #compdef jump local targets=(macbook imac tyrion) _wanted jump_target expl 'Jump target' compadd -a targets As I said, it should work, but there are probably much nicer ways to achieve the same result. Best regards, -- Jérémie
On 8/8/19, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me start by saying that I don't understand completion at all, so > this may be a) simple or b) impossible or c) have to be done a > completely different way. > > I have a function called 'jump' which I will include below. > > The function takes one (1) argument from a specific list of arguments. > I have defined these arguments as part of the function, although they > don't have to be defined that way if there's another way of doing it > that would work better for completion. [snip] > As you can see, these files are obscurely named in an obscure folder > on my Mac, but I _could_ create links to all of them with the > preferred names, such as > > ~/jump/m1 > ~/jump/mini > ~/jump/mba > ~/jump/tyrion > ~/jump/imac > > and then all the function would need to do is open the file that > matches the argument. > > I'd like to be able to type "jump [tab]" and have all of the options > appear (m1, mini, mba, tyrion, imac) or type "jump m[tab]" and have > just the ones that start with 'm' appear, etc. I think that's all > fairly standard completion stuff. > > Any help would be appreciated. For a very quick and dirty solution, dump this in your .zshrc compdef -e '() { local expl; _wanted jump-targets expl "jump target" compadd m1 mini mba tyrion imac }' jump The next step up is to create a file called _jump, put it in your $fpath and ensure fpath is set correctly before calling compinit, and then the contents of that file would be: #compdef jump local expl _wanted jump-targets expl "jump target" compadd m1 mini mba tyrion imac And of course from here you can get more fancy with generating the list of targets. For any more complex handling, ie if jump were to support some --options and multiple arguments, you would probably want to start using _arguments instead. -- Mikael Magnusson