Re: _arguments parsing of --help output

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Jul 24, 10:52am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > Many GNU commands include short options in the --help output as well
} > [...] 
} > Is there a reason that we don't attempt to complete the short forms?
} 
}   _arguments '-e:ea:(1 2)' -e -b -p
} 
} This will make `foo -e <TAB>' complete `1' and `2' but `foo -' lists
} both (with auto-descriptions).

I don't understand here what you mean by "`foo -' lists both".

} The code in _arguments takes care that the user-supplied specs are
} preferred over the automatically derived ones, though.

Using the 3.1.9-dev-3 version of _arguments, I tried all of:

	_tst() { _arguments '--e:ea:(1 2)' -- }		# Case 1

	_tst() { _arguments -- '--e:ea:(1 2)' }		# Case 2

	_tst() { _arguments -- '*--e:ea:(1 2)' }	# Case 3

In combination with:

	tst() { print -l - --e --b --p }
	compdef _tst tst

Case 1: Completion after `tst' lists --e --b --p and completion after
`tst --e' lists 1 2.

Case 2: Completion after `tst' lists --e --b --p and completion after
`tst --e' completes `--' and then lists --b and --p; 1 or 2 are never
completed.

Case 3: Exactly like Case 2.

So case 1 behaves as I expected, and case 3 appears to be broken.  (I
also tried '*e:ea:(1 2)' and a few other patterns.)  I'm not sure what
I should be expecting from case 2.



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