sub-command completion

sub-command completion

[Pier Paolo Grassi]

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Hello, I am trying to understand if it is possible to control the behavior
of _gnu_generic completion.
I have a command which defines different options if a non-option first
argument has already been inserted on the command line, eg:

command -x -y sub-command

I have defined a custom completion function like this:

<----- CODE
# omissis code to populate the vars description_array and commands_array

if [[ ${words[-1]} == -* ]]
then
_gnu_generic
else
_arguments -s -S -A '-*' \
"1:commands:->commands" \
"*:files:_files"
fi

case $state in
(commands)
compadd -V commands -a -l -d description_array -Q -U commands_array
  ;;
esac

CODE ----->

Now I would like to make _gnu_generic complete with the options offered by:

command subcommand --help

when a subcommand has already been inserted on the command line. But I
can't figure out how to do so, can anyone help me out?

thanks

Pier Paolo Grassi
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217
founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO

Re: sub-command completion

[Pier Paolo Grassi]

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Sorry for the previous posting, the mail I wanted to ask again for
suggestions is the one quoted here
any help appreciated, thanks!

Pier Paolo Grassi
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217
founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO


Il giorno gio 29 ago 2019 alle ore 11:48 Pier Paolo Grassi <
pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hello, I am trying to understand if it is possible to control the behavior
> of _gnu_generic completion.
> I have a command which defines different options if a non-option first
> argument has already been inserted on the command line, eg:
>
> command -x -y sub-command
>
> I have defined a custom completion function like this:
>
> <----- CODE
> # omissis code to populate the vars description_array and commands_array
>
> if [[ ${words[-1]} == -* ]]
> then
> _gnu_generic
> else
> _arguments -s -S -A '-*' \
> "1:commands:->commands" \
> "*:files:_files"
> fi
>
> case $state in
> (commands)
> compadd -V commands -a -l -d description_array -Q -U commands_array
>   ;;
> esac
>
> CODE ----->
>
> Now I would like to make _gnu_generic complete with the options offered by:
>
> command subcommand --help
>
> when a subcommand has already been inserted on the command line. But I
> can't figure out how to do so, can anyone help me out?
>
> thanks
>
> Pier Paolo Grassi
> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217
> founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO
>