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From: Gabor Maghera <gmaghera@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Completing arguments containing the colon character
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:12:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOzw3LawhuE4JVV7EJrkcoaqbwiJjwGGprM2s=-Sg0qka6=npg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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We use a naming standard for Perforce specs of the form
"<username>::<arbitrary>".  Zsh autocompletion cannot process these entries,
due to the colon character being used as a list separator by its mechanism
(as I understand).

Is there a way to make it work?  I've been perusing the man page for
zcompsys, as well as the _perforce completion module, but I'm not sure it's
possible.

Here is an example of what the erroneous completions look like:
% p4 client -o p4droid<tab><tab>
p4droid                                          --
:PerforceTriggers:2009/12/29 root /opt/local/perforce/trigger_scripts
'Created by p4droid. '
p4droid                                          -- :triggers:2009/12/18
root /Workspace/trigger_test 'Created by gabor.maghera. '

The full entry names are p4droid::PerforceTriggers and p4doird::triggers.

Thanks in advance,
Gabor

             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28 23:12 Gabor Maghera [this message]
2011-10-28 23:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2011-10-29 18:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-10-31 19:34   ` Gabor Maghera

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