Re: = completion

[Seth Kurtzberg <seth@cql.com>]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 11:21 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
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> On Saturday 26 November 2005 22:22, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
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> > In each of the following, however, tab completion does not work (that
> > is, no completion occurs):
> >
> >     export abc=/whatever:$abc   (obviously I attempt tab completion
> > before adding the :$abc)
> >
> 
> Works fine and with COMPLETE_IN_WORD set also in the middle of string
> 
> >     dd if=./whatever
> >
> 
> Of course works too.
> 
> Which zsh version and completion style do you use? I am not sure if compctl 
> does what you want (I have not used it for years) but new compsys does. If 
> you have zsh 4.2.x, try
> 
> autoload -U compinit; compinit

Thanks much, this indeed took care of the problem.  I didn't realize
that this wasn't the default.

I'll use the users list next time.

> 
> to initialize completion system.
> 
> > The latter is an example of using arg=/some/path which occurs for
> > various commands, so dd is just an example and the question is not in
> > any way specific to dd.
> >
> 
> It is. Completion is context-sensitive. It knows that export expects 
> (path-)assignment; that for dd if= has path as argument; but it has no way to 
> know this for arbitrary command "foo". While it is possible to fallback to 
> something like dd does, I am now sure it is good idea; you probably need it 
> only for several commands and it is likely zsh already includes suitable 
> completion for them.
> 
> > I do have the options related to equals completion enabled.
> >
> 
> Which suggests you are using compctl.
> 
> > I also tried this on a new install of linux
> 
> This satement is meaningless :) Which distribution, which version? Some of 
> them may use compsys by default some not. Anyway, just try compinit as above 
> and if it works, try compinstall that will help you to setup new completion 
> system.
> 
> BTW zsh-users would be more appropriate for such questions.
> 
> - -andrey
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