From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@newmail.ru>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Please add pinfo completion
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:48:37 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610110648.45199.arvidjaar@newmail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010185959.c84c0b49.pws@csr.com>
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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:59, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > > compdef _gnu_generic pinfo
> >
> > One problem is that it doesn't give help text. So, is there a way
> > to generate a completion file (to be completed), assuming that the
> > command has the --help feature?
>
> OK, here is _arguments updated to provide option descriptions from --help
> text automatically.
>
I do not think it should be done unconditionally. I guess it has been
discussed back when we started all this completion candy; and common opinion
was that running arbitrary program with --help may have unwanted side
effects.
Also, making it explicit allows passing different sorts of --help;
specifically I am thinking about KDE/Qt --help-qt, --help-kde, --help-all,
etc.
And finally it opens up a can of worms that is called l10n. Now-a-days you
almost sure gets localized help output; so be prepared for questions "why
this one appears in Russian and this one not" :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-11 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-07 1:35 Vincent Lefevre
2006-10-07 15:27 ` Nikolai Weibull
2006-10-08 21:13 ` Mikael Magnusson
2006-10-10 14:22 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-10-10 15:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-10-11 1:03 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-10-10 17:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-10-10 21:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-10-11 2:48 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
[not found] ` <200610110933.k9B9XJTB021853@news01.csr.com>
2006-10-11 15:43 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-10-11 16:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-10-11 2:52 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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