Re: completion functions (was: 6-pws-2)

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

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > With a little help from `awk' this was relatively easy to build, so I
> > thought I just try to make us make a decision.
> > 
> > This is `User/_pbm' again, but containing mostly the stuff from the
> > `Pbmplus/*' files.
> 
> I like it this way --- particularly since it replaces a 100 functions, and
> you can compare the different behaviour for each function just by looking
> through the one file.  Does anyone have anything to say for the other way,
> before I delete the Pbmplus subdirectory?  Also, would it help to add a
> comment pointing out you can override individual completions by defining an
> appropriate function?

Maybe. Just to rub it in.

Bye
 Sven

diff -u Completion.old/User/_pbm Completion/User/_pbm
--- Completion.old/User/_pbm	Thu Sep  2 11:37:39 1999
+++ Completion/User/_pbm	Thu Sep  2 13:10:15 1999
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 #compdef -P (p[bgpn]m*|*top[bgpn]m)
 
+# Completion for all (or most, you'll never know) pbmplus commands.
+# For some of them there are special cases in the biggish `case' below.
+# Note that since this function is a post-pattern function, these
+# defaults can be overridden by simple defining completion functions
+# for those commands whose arguments you want to complete differently.
+
 local pat expl ret=1
 
 if [[ "$words[1]" = pnm* ]]; then

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de