From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:52:58 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007240852.KAA05409@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:22:33 -0700
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Many GNU commands include short options in the --help output as well as long
> ones; e.g. `tar --help' emits lines like "-m, --modifcation-time ...". The
> code in _arguments accounts for this by splitting the line at commas, but
> then discards the short form of the option.
>
> Is there a reason that we don't attempt to complete the short forms as well?
The only problem I can see is if the user-supplied specs contain those
options, too. Currently _arguments does not discard additional
definitions but the first one takes precedence with respect to
argument handling (arguments of options):
_arguments '-e:ea:(1 2)' -e -b -p
This will make `foo -e <TAB>' complete `1' and `2' but `foo -' lists
both (with auto-descriptions).
Hm, maybe we should do something about that.
The code in _arguments takes care that the user-supplied specs are
preferred over the automatically derived ones, though.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-07-24 8:52 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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2000-07-21 22:22 Bart Schaefer
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