Re: Silly questions about _arguments & Co (and probably bugs)

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

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> 1. When are the description of arguments actually printed? I tried some basic
> commands like xterm or patch but descriptions do not seem to be printed.

You need to do `compconf description_format="--- %d"' or something
like that.

> 2. Looks, like `-s' is overloaded - it is used both for "single letter options"
> and for "option aliases" (from _long_options). I believe, this is the reason why
> option aliases do not work any more :-) E.g. ntpd configure lists only --enable
> variant - and now no --disable counterparts are recognised.

No, the `-s' for the long-option stuff is *only* interpreted if it
appears *after* the `--', which needs to be there to make `_arguments'
do this automatic-long-option-stuff at all. The `-s' for `use single
letter options' has to come as the *first* argument.

> 3. I cannot make completion for patch work. As simple as `patch --sTAB' just
> beeps.

Dunno, works for me.

> 4. `patch -pTAB' gives me `patch -p0 ' - but `0' is not autoremoved if I enter
> different number (I'd expect it to be).

I don't get a `0' inserted automatically here.

> 5. `patch TAB' does not list most of the long options at all. Actually, it is
> interesting case - if a command has both long and short form - which one should
> be preferred? I'd like to have short option only if no corresponding short one
> exists.

Again, I get all the long options my `patch --help' prints. Hm, this
and the `--s<TAB>' thing above makes me think that maybe you have a
different version of `patch' with a different `--help' output. I'd
need to see that then.

Otherwise: which version do you have? Which patches?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de