Re: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-8: using pattern completions

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Unless I'm missing a patch or two, pattern completions aren't handled
> properly.  They work rather differently, so it's necessary to pass extra
> arguments to callcomplete.  Possibly these could be passed anyway, saving
> an array look-up in most cases.

There are two more problems: when dumpin patcomps we need to make sure 
the elements are not split (they contain at least one space) and the
pattern-function files should not quote the patterns.

> Now, can anyone tell me how to avoid getting a default completion list for
> the pattern completions as well?  This is rather crucial since I'm trying
> to get all zf* files to use zftp completion, and I don't want a side dish
> of local filenames with every order.

It's in the `|| return 1'. If a pattern function returns non-zero, the 
other patterns and the completion for the command are not tried.

A few open questions:

- The return non-zero convention is intended as a replacement for
  `compctl -t'. I didn't document it because I'm not sure if this is
  the right way to do it.
- Due to getting the patterns automatically from the files they are
  not sorted. This may be an argument in favor of the simplified
  processing I used in the `Comp' example directory.
- We probably should also completely remove the completion-array-handling.
  This would make the code much cleaner, would allow us to get rid of
  the callcomplete-trampoline, and would allow us to call dump anytime.

(I'd like to clean up the whole example code, anyway: use only one
leading underscore, but use it for all functions and aliases, add the
`__if' stuff I described yesterday, remove the aliases, etc. Dunno if
I find the time to do this today, though.)

Bye
 Sven

diff -u of/Completion/__x_options Functions/Completion/__x_options
--- of/Completion/__x_options	Fri Feb 19 12:01:50 1999
+++ Functions/Completion/__x_options	Fri Feb 19 11:28:51 1999
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#pattern-function '*/X11/*'
+#pattern-function */X11/*
 
 # A simple pattern completion, just as an example.
 
diff -u of/Completion/dump Functions/Completion/dump
--- of/Completion/dump	Fri Feb 19 11:19:21 1999
+++ Functions/Completion/dump	Fri Feb 19 11:33:28 1999
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 if (( $#patcomps )); then
   print "\npatcomps=("
-  for __d_f in $patcomps; do
+  for __d_f in "$patcomps[@]"; do
     print -r - "'${__d_f//\'/'\\''}'"
   done
   print ")"

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de