* Re: Question about _complete_help
@ 1999-12-07 8:22 Sven Wischnowsky
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From: Sven Wischnowsky @ 1999-12-07 8:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> I noted some difference between doc and actual output. Doc states:
>
> The completion system represents such a context as a hierarchical name
> with components separated by colons. For example the name
> :complete:dvips:-o-1 is used when completing the first argument of the
> -o option of the dvips command.
Then your doc is out-of-date. At least mine says `:complete::dvips::-o-1'
and that ever since I made the command name be surrounded by double
colons, as you observed looking at the output of _complete_help:
> where actual output of _complete_help gives:
>
> bor@itsrm2:~%> dvips -o ^Xh
> tags in context `:complete::dvips::-o-1':
> arguments
> globbed-files directories all-files
>
> Are these double colons significant? This is really misleading. Note that for
> the command position:
>
> bor@itsrm2:~%>
> tags in context `:complete:-command-':
> commands executables jobs builtins functions aliases reserved-words
> jobs
>
> these double colons do not appear.
That's right. The double colons are *only* used around command names,
to make it very easy to unambiguously match it. See 8777 for further
enlightenment (and the up-to-date version of the docs, where I
mentioned this explicitly).
Bye
Sven
--
Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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* Question about _complete_help
@ 1999-12-06 15:36 Andrej Borsenkow
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From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 1999-12-06 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ZSH workers mailing list
I noted some difference between doc and actual output. Doc states:
The completion system represents such a context as a hierarchical name
with components separated by colons. For example the name
:complete:dvips:-o-1 is used when completing the first argument of the
-o option of the dvips command.
where actual output of _complete_help gives:
bor@itsrm2:~%> dvips -o ^Xh
tags in context `:complete::dvips::-o-1':
arguments
globbed-files directories all-files
Are these double colons significant? This is really misleading. Note that for
the command position:
bor@itsrm2:~%>
tags in context `:complete:-command-':
commands executables jobs builtins functions aliases reserved-words
jobs
these double colons do not appear.
/andrej
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