* short option and long option completion formatting
@ 2004-02-12 22:17 Eric Mangold
2004-02-13 23:51 ` Eric Mangold
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Mangold @ 2004-02-12 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hello folks,
I'm writing completion functions and I've come across a formatting issue.
The commands I'm doing completions for have a number of short options and
matching long options (such as -p and --port). The way I'm doing it now,
using _arguments, is to have a seperate spec for the short options and the
corresponding long options. These specs are, of course, virtually
identical and when _arguments formats the output on screen they show up on
seperate lines, such as:
--bar -- Description of bar
--baz -- Description of baz
--foo -- Description of foo
-a -- Description of A
-b -- Description of bar
-f -- Description of foo
I want a way to combine these specs so as not to duplicate "code" and a
way to format this all on one line, such as:
-a -- A description
-b, --bar -- Description of bar
-f, --foo -- Description of foo
--baz -- baz description
I find this formatting quite a bit more readable especially as the number
of options increases. I've done some searching on the ML archives and
poking around the official completion functions and havn't found anything
related. I'm really new to writing completions and looking for help.
Any ideas on how to implement this?
Thank you,
-Eric Mangold
-PS By the way, the commands I'm doing completion for are twistd and mktap
of the Twisted project. use their --help options to see how that gets
formatted (very close to what I want the completion to look like). Or if
anyone is curious about how it looks and doesn't want to install Twisted I
shall respond with that info.
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* short option and long option completion formatting
@ 2004-02-12 21:56 Eric Mangold
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Mangold @ 2004-02-12 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hello folks,
I'm writing completion functions and I've come across a formatting issue.
The commands I'm doing completions for have a number of short options and
matching long options (such as -p and --port). The way I'm doing it now,
using _arguments, is to have a seperate spec for the short options and the
corresponding long options. These specs are, of course, virtually
identical and when _arguments formats the output on screen they show up on
seperate lines, such as:
--bar -- Description of bar
--baz -- Description of baz
--foo -- Description of foo
-a -- Description of A
-b -- Description of bar
-f -- Description of foo
I want a way to combine these specs so as not to duplicate "code" and a
way to format this all on one line, such as:
-a -- A description
-b, --bar -- Description of bar
-f, --foo -- Description of foo
--baz -- baz description
I find this formatting quite a bit more readable especially as the number
of options increases. I've done some searching on the ML archives and
poking around the official completion functions and havn't found anything
related. I'm really new to writing completions and looking for help.
Any ideas on how to implement this?
Thank you,
-Eric Mangold
-PS By the way, the commands I'm doing completion for are twistd and mktap
of the Twisted project. use their --help options to see how that gets
formatted (very close to what I want the completion to look like). Or if
anyone is curious about how it looks and doesn't want to install Twisted I
shall respond with that info.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* short option and long option completion formatting
@ 2004-02-12 5:58 Eric Mangold
2004-02-12 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Mangold @ 2004-02-12 5:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hello folks,
I'm writing completion functions and I've come across a formatting issue.
The commands I'm doing completions for have a number of short options and
matching long options (such as -p and --port). The way I'm doing it now,
using _arguments, is to have a seperate spec for the short options and the
corresponding long options. These specs are, of course, virtually
identical and when _arguments formats the output on screen they show up on
seperate lines, such as:
--bar -- Description of bar
--baz -- Description of baz
--foo -- Description of foo
-a -- Description of A
-b -- Description of bar
-f -- Description of foo
I want a way to combine these specs so as not to duplicate "code" and a
way to format this all on one line, such as:
-a -- A description
-b, --bar -- Description of bar
-f, --foo -- Description of foo
--baz -- baz description
I find this formatting quite a bit more readable especially as the number
of options increases. I've done some searching on the ML archives and
poking around the official completion functions and havn't found anything
related. I'm really new to writing completions and looking for help.
Any ideas on how to implement this?
Thank you,
-Eric Mangold
-PS By the way, the commands I'm doing completion for are twistd and mktap
of the Twisted project. use their --help options to see how that gets
formatted (very close to what I want the completion to look like). Or if
anyone is curious about how it looks and doesn't want to install Twisted I
shall respond with that info.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: short option and long option completion formatting
2004-02-12 5:58 Eric Mangold
@ 2004-02-12 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2004-02-12 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Feb 11, 10:58pm, Eric Mangold wrote:
}
} I want a way to combine these specs so as not to duplicate "code" and a
} way to format this all on one line, such as:
}
} -a -- A description
} -b, --bar -- Description of bar
} -f, --foo -- Description of foo
} --baz -- baz description
This is done automatically for options with identical descriptions, as
of zsh 4.1.something (I forget exactly when). E.g. note -H and -v in
the cvs completion below:
schaefer<501> cvs -
Completing option
--allow-root -- allowable root for pserver
--help -H -- print help information
--help-commands -- command help
--help-options -- global options help
--help-synonyms -- command synonyms help
--version -v -- print version and copyright information
(more trimmed)
So I'd say you should leave your completion function as it is, and consider
upgrading your zsh installation if you're desperate to have this.
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