Re: completing history words

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

Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> I'm a little bit mystified by the way _history_complete_word is
> implemented as it seems to re-implement menu-completion while not
> offering non-menu completion. Why does it not just complete history
> words and rely on separate completers based on different builtin
> widgets (menu-complete, complete-word etc)? I wanted to be able to
> complete history in a fairly normal way but it behaves in a slightly
> strange way, doing things like inserting a match for ambiguous
> completions.

It's rather old...

> I created a small function (_complete_history) containing just the
> line:
> compadd -Q -a 'historywords[2,-1]'

Have you seen the _history completer?

> ...
> 
> 
> It actually seems to have a problem with strange characters (e.g.
> '$') not being considered part of the word being completed but other
> than that, it is fine.

See some recent mails, _history and _h_c_w put $IPREFIX into $PREFIX
for that.

> Obviously, my _complete_history function could be much improved with
> styles for sorting and to manipulate compstate so listing etc can be
> turned off but this way of doing it seems better to me. It is much
> simpler and configuration of it will be more similar to configuring for
> other completion widgets. Can anyone please explain why it is currently
> done differently?

Well, Adam will have to have the final word about this...

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de