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

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

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> O.K., I overlooked it (not that I like it either).

The alternative would be to have an option that says that `cmd --help'
should be called and to have a (yet another) syntax for the long-option-
patterns/descriptions. This would make parsing a bit slower and since
these descriptions are used in a completely different way than the
other descriptions they should be grouped together anyway (I think).

But if enough people complain...

> But, still, aliasing does not
> work any more. Just try
> 
> ./configure --dis-z-m
> 
> It should complete to --disable-zsh-memory - but it does not.

Yep, should be fixed with the patch below.

Bye
 Sven

diff -u oldcompletion/Base/_arguments Completion/Base/_arguments
--- oldcompletion/Base/_arguments	Thu Sep  9 16:12:19 1999
+++ Completion/Base/_arguments	Thu Sep  9 16:22:33 1999
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
       # We have to build the long-option cache anew, get the `-i' and
       # `-s' options.
 
+      set -- "${(@)argv[nth+1,-1]}"
+
       iopts=()
       sopts=()
       while [[ "$1" = -[is]* ]]; do
@@ -105,7 +107,7 @@
       # ... and add "same" options
 
       while (( $#sopts )); do
-        lopts=( $lopts ${opts/$sopts[1]/$sopts[2]} )
+        lopts=( $lopts ${lopts/$sopts[1]/$sopts[2]} )
         shift 2 sopts
       done
 

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de