completion argument-n enabling

completion argument-n enabling

[Phil Pennock]

Continuing my education in my own stupidity, I continue to have problems
trying to migrate to the zshcompsys completion.  I write small shell
convenience functions and used to write compctl settings for them. In
this instance, I've gotten most of the way there.

I'm sure that the answers are really simple and education is
appreciated.  Thanks.

Given:
 function cyrus { sudo -H -u cyrus "/usr/lib/cyrus/$1" "${argv[2,-1]}" }
I've managed to produce a mostly-working set-up:
 zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:*' file-patterns '/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*\:t)'

However, I only want that completion to occur for the first parameter;
but argument-n context needs to be enabled and I can't figure out how to
do that.  To make:
 zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:argument-1:*' file-patterns \
						 '/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*\:t)'
work, what do I actually need to do please?  The nearest that I could
figure out was: zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:*:arguments' _normal
but that doesn't work.

Also, if I instead use:
 compdef '_files -g "/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*:t)"' -P '' cyrus
(I know, it deals with all parameters, not just the first) why am I
prompted with two sets of results, the correct filenames and then the
sub-directories of the cwd?

Are there any simple examples which I should be looking for, covering
this sort of thing?  The stuff I can find all uses custom _cmdname
widgets and I couldn't find anything just offering plain "how to do X"
for the sort of thing I'm attempting.  The nearest seems to be
StartupFiles/zshrc which falls just shy of providing an example of
per-command completion.

Thanks,
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Re: completion argument-n enabling

[Peter Stephenson]

Phil Pennock wrote:
> Given:
>  function cyrus { sudo -H -u cyrus "/usr/lib/cyrus/$1" "${argv[2,-1]}" }
> I've managed to produce a mostly-working set-up:
>  zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:*' file-patterns '/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*\:t)'
> 
> However, I only want that completion to occur for the first parameter;
> but argument-n context needs to be enabled and I can't figure out how to
> do that.  To make:
>  zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:argument-1:*' file-patterns \
> 						 '/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*\:t)'
> work, what do I actually need to do please?  The nearest that I could
> figure out was: zstyle ':completion:*:*:cyrus:*:arguments' _normal
> but that doesn't work.

As far as I know, only the _arguments completer has that capability,
so you need

_cyrus() {
    _arguments \
      ':cyrus file:_path_files -g "/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*\:t)"'
}

Note that you'll also get directories in /usr/lib/cyrus, although
I suppose there aren't any.  Stick a "." after the "(" to fix that.

> Also, if I instead use:
>  compdef '_files -g "/usr/lib/cyrus/*(*:t)"' -P '' cyrus
> (I know, it deals with all parameters, not just the first) why am I
> prompted with two sets of results, the correct filenames and then the
> sub-directories of the cwd?

_files tries to be smart about paths, but if you're trying to specify an
explicit path you don't want it to be.  Use the underlying function
_path_files, as I did above.

> Are there any simple examples which I should be looking for, covering
> this sort of thing?  The stuff I can find all uses custom _cmdname
> widgets and I couldn't find anything just offering plain "how to do X"
> for the sort of thing I'm attempting.  The nearest seems to be
> StartupFiles/zshrc which falls just shy of providing an example of
> per-command completion.

There are lots of examples of using _arguments in all sorts of different
ways.

Of course, if you really want a good explanation you need to buy From
Bash to Z Shell:  Conquering the Command Line (Apress).

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