From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11986 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2002 05:46:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Aug 2002 05:46:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 25283 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2002 05:45:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 17529 Received: (qmail 25270 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2002 05:45:57 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1020812054520.ZM28574@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:45:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87znvt15hr.fsf@julie.debian-fr.org> Comments: In reply to Bruno Bonfils "read timeout argument || completion of a function" (Aug 11, 10:54pm) References: <87znvt15hr.fsf@julie.debian-fr.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Bruno Bonfils , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: read timeout argument || completion of a function MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Aug 11, 10:54pm, Bruno Bonfils wrote: } } i'm very surprised to observe there isn't timeout argument for read } builtin function. There are certain aspects of the arms race in which ksh is currently ahead. I suppose when it gets a builtin to launch satellites we'll have to start working on moon landers. Meanwhile, if you install 4.1.0-dev-5 you can use the zselect builtin. } Moreover, i'm looking the way for provide completion for a function : This has nothing to do with wanting read to time out, right? } First of all, i want to be sure i _can't_ define the default } completion tag with zstyle for a command which don't have } _command completion function (default tag called is _files isn't it } ?). You seem to be a bit confused about what's a tag and what's a completion function. The default completion is what is called when there isn't any other completion defined, and it is implemented by a function that is named _default, which happens to call another function named _files. The _files function looks for zstyles using several different tags; the most general of these is "all-files", which is effectively the default tag used for completion in the absence of any other configuration. } I have also try to write a just little function _myping which contains } } #compdef myping } } _arguments '*:hostname:_hosts' } } but myping provide file completion, and _myping hosts } completion. One doesn't normally type the name of a completion function on the command line; it's meant to be called only by the completion system (that's why it has a leading underscore in the name). If `_myping ' gives host completion, you've somehow gotten _myping set up to complete for itself, or some such. Are you certain that the _myping file has `#compdef myping' and not `#compdef _myping'? You could get rid of your _myping function and instead use the command `compdef myping=ping' which says to complete for myping the same way as for ping ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net