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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:09:53 +0100 (MET)
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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
In-reply-to: Alexandre Duret-Lutz's message of 28 Jan 2000 17:24:14 +0100
Subject: Re: PATCH: _diff (new), _prcs (upgrade)


Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> ...
> 
>  Sven> I suggested that to enable completion functions to make it as you
>  Sven> described in 9453: if we are completing for the command, call it
>  Sven> without a `command', otherwise with it. And that can't be decided in
>  Sven> _call.
> 
> I must be missing something.  Can't $curcontext be used? 
> I am thinking about something like this:
> 
>     # 
>     _call () {  
>       if [[ $curcontext == *:$1: ]]
>       then
>         $1                   #(A)
>       else
>         command $1           #(B)
>       fi
>     }
> 
>     _f() {
>       _call foo
>     } 
> 
>     compdef _f foo bar
> 
> 
> seems to run either (A) or (B) wheter I complete after foo or bar.

Hm, for forcing the test to use only command names, this would be
`::${1}:'. Maybe. I'm trying to think of a case where this would fail, 
but I can't find one just now...

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de