Re: _argument sets [was Re: a couple of completion questions]

Re: _argument sets [was Re: a couple of completion questions]

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Clint Adams wrote:

> > I know nothing about dpkg and friends. In which way does it behave
> > differently from what's documented and how do you make use of it
> > (i.e.: is there something wrong? or only documented in the wrong way?
> > or should have both what it's doing and what's documented?)?
> 
> Okay, first off, this is what I want.  <arg> is meant to be
> -i, -A, or the long-option equivalents.
> 
> dpkg <arg> <TAB> right now completes _files -g \*.deb by default.
> If I remove the -A to _arguments, it will complete $_dpkg_options.
> Ideally, it should complete _files -g \*.deb, $_dpkg_options,
> and $_dpkg_options_recursive, unless one of $_dpkg_options_recursive
> is present, in which case it should complete directories instead of
> \*.deb.  BTW, I swapped the positions of -C and -A to _arguments.
> 
> It does this, except for completing $_dpkg_options or
> $_dpkg_options_recursive.  Or rather, it will for
> 
> dpkg --install --<TAB>
> dpkg --install -<TAB>
> dpkg --install -O<TAB>
> 
> but it won't complete for
> 
> dpkg --install --a<TAB>
> 
> So if I type dpkg --install --<TAB> I get --abort-after,
> but if I type --a<TAB>, I get corrections.

Aha, one of those. I'll look at _arguments at the weekend anyway and
have put it on my list.

Bye
 Sven

P.S.: Due to the missing sub-indentation I didn't realise immediately
      that _dpkg uses multiple sets.

--
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de

_argument sets [was Re: a couple of completion questions]

[Clint Adams]

> I know nothing about dpkg and friends. In which way does it behave
> differently from what's documented and how do you make use of it
> (i.e.: is there something wrong? or only documented in the wrong way?
> or should have both what it's doing and what's documented?)?

Okay, first off, this is what I want.  <arg> is meant to be
-i, -A, or the long-option equivalents.

dpkg <arg> <TAB> right now completes _files -g \*.deb by default.
If I remove the -A to _arguments, it will complete $_dpkg_options.
Ideally, it should complete _files -g \*.deb, $_dpkg_options,
and $_dpkg_options_recursive, unless one of $_dpkg_options_recursive
is present, in which case it should complete directories instead of
\*.deb.  BTW, I swapped the positions of -C and -A to _arguments.

It does this, except for completing $_dpkg_options or
$_dpkg_options_recursive.  Or rather, it will for

dpkg --install --<TAB>
dpkg --install -<TAB>
dpkg --install -O<TAB>

but it won't complete for

dpkg --install --a<TAB>

So if I type dpkg --install --<TAB> I get --abort-after,
but if I type --a<TAB>, I get corrections.