From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: _arguments
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:01:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000614100158.F27844@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200006140653.IAA02555@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>; from wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:53:53AM +0200
> I just noticed that someone was so kind to put the X-Seq numbers for
> my patches in the ChangeLog... thanks!
No problem.
> The `-A -*' doesn't mean that it complete ignores all unknown strings
> starting with a hyphen, it just means that it doesn't stop completing
> options if it finds undescribed `-foo's.
> So, you still have to give it the `--{install,...}' to make it ignore
> it. Or you use the `= ' trick together with the `::' trick, as in:
>
> '(-i)--install:*::Debian packages:= ->install' \
I'm confused. If I omit the '--{install,...}', doesn't that make
--install an undescribed -foo, and thus it shouldn't stop completing
options?
> Then you can leave the other stuff alone (as long as you don't need to
> react to the presence/absence of options that might be before the
> `--install', which, hm, I think you have (the exclusion lists), hm ...).
dpkg --recursive --install should behave the same way as dpkg --install
--recursive. *sigh*
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2000-06-14 6:53 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-14 14:01 ` Clint Adams [this message]
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2000-06-14 14:42 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-13 12:07 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-13 17:47 ` Clint Adams
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