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From: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Complete value from list with colons
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:28:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qk0mp7$116e$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e5ab665-a4fb-4c75-a4a4-0a0734148b71@www.fastmail.com>

On 8/24/2019 1:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Scott Frazer wrote on Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:44 +00:00:
>> I would like to do completion from a list of values that have ':' in
>> them, something like:
>>
>> _values foo a::b c::d
>>
>> and have it offer 'a::b' and 'c::d' as choices, but I can't figure out
>> how to escape the ':' in the completion system.
> 
> Backslashes:
> 
> [[[
> % _f() { _values desc 'foo\:\:FOO' 'bar\:\:BAR' }
> % f <TAB>
>> desc
> bar::BAR  foo::FOO
> %
> ]]]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 

Thanks, I thought I had tried all combinations of quotes and backslashes 
but apparently not.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-26 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-24 12:43 Scott Frazer
2019-08-24 17:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-08-25  1:18   ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-08-26 13:34     ` Scott Frazer
2019-08-26 17:39       ` dana
2019-08-26 13:28   ` Scott Frazer [this message]

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