Re: completion with separator

[Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>]

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I found the specification of _arguments that describes the action part.
I don't understand, however, why the -r applies only to these, since the
compadd specification of this option does not describe this limitation

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno sab 7 mag 2022 alle ore 22:31 Pier Paolo Grassi <
pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I would like to test your solution, but idk how to add an action part to
> my $categories_array. Right now it is just an array of strings to be used
> for completion.
>
> Pier Paolo Grassi
>
>
> Il giorno sab 7 mag 2022 alle ore 22:29 Pier Paolo Grassi <
> pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> > It should already be happening that way.  If you type a space or
>> another return after the comma, it should disappear.
>>
>> yes it is removed when I press a space after selection, and even if I
>> press enter after the selection. But this way, in the enter case, the line
>> is accepted and executed.
>> What I would like is for the comma not to be inserted after the
>> completion, I would like to insert it by myself if I want to insert
>> multiple arguments. So when I press enter in the menu selection the voice
>> is selected and the line is:
>>
>> func acat<cursor>
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> func acat,<cursor>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> Pier Paolo Grassi
>>
>>
>> Il giorno sab 7 mag 2022 alle ore 22:12 Bart Schaefer <
>> schaefer@brasslantern.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 3:41 AM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> _values -s , categories $categories_array
>>>>
>>>> > func a<tab>
>>>> <menu completion where I select a value with enter>
>>>> > func acat,<cursor>
>>>>
>>>> I would like that the comma was not added automatically, or at least to
>>>> be removed automatically when I select a voice in menu selection with enter.
>>>> is this possible?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It should already be happening that way.  If you type a space or another
>>> return after the comma, it should disappear.
>>>
>>> If that's not happening the way you like, you can try some variation of
>>>
>>> remove_comma=(-r '[:alnum:] \t\n\-')
>>> _values -O remove_comma -s , categories $categories_array
>>>
>>> to remove the comma when you type (in that example) anything
>>> alphanumeric or whitespace, but whether that works depends on how you've
>>> defined the specs in $categories_array (-O applies only to specs that have
>>> an "action" component).
>>>
>>>
>>>

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