From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: completion for aliased commands does not work
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 06:29:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3ScU7RMao=8-Y7bD_pfsoQOygMCaxqJ63v-rB6hqs9xtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161031163337.ZM21662@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 11:12pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> } Subject: Re: completion for aliased commands does not work
> }
> } Fourhundred Thecat wrote on Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 23:47:21 +0100:
> } > alias diff='colordiff'
> } > diff --<TAB>
> } > /usr/bin/diff --<TAB>
> }
> } Completion "sees through" aliases. You'll find that with the above
> } alias, "diff <TAB>" and "colordiff <TAB>" behave the same way.
>
> That's actually not true. You have to "setopt complete_aliases" for
> completion to "see through". If for some reason you do not want to
> set that, THEN:
>
> } Therefore, define a completion for colordiff:
> }
> } compdef colordiff=diff
>
That's actually not true, setting complete_aliases makes completion
treat aliases as separate commands. :)
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-01 5:29 UTC|newest]
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2016-10-31 23:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-10-31 23:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-01 5:29 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2016-11-01 18:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-10-31 22:47 Fourhundred Thecat
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