* Recursive completion (was: RE: Reading completion manual)
@ 1999-03-03 6:39 Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 1999-03-03 6:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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May be, this solves the original problem?
>
> As most of us, I don't like the idea of conditions with side
> effects. But I don't like the Sven's suggestion of replacing
> conditions with shell code either (at least, with *THIS* code :-)
> Even more, as it does not solve the original problem - you still
> have to save parameters and restore them after that. I'd suggest
> something in between - conditions set special parameters
> (elements of hash?) that can be used to extract matched
> substrings/words. That is almost the same, as Sven's suggestion,
> but probably more user-friendly :) something like
>
> if [[ -between string1 string2 ]]; then
> local -a nwords
> nwords=(words[$FIRST,$LAST])
> ...
>
>
if [[ -between string1 string2 ]]; then
compalso --from=first --to=last
compalso() {
for i in $*
case $i in
--from=* )
from=${i#--from=}
;;
....
words=($words[$from,$to])
...
}
I bet, this can be written as one line :-)
cheers
/andrej
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