Re: PATCH: _units

[Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org>]

On 2007-06-04 at 16:18 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> This implements completion for GNU units.  As noted, it's not that
> useful for some other implementations which don't take command line
> arguments, though for any that do and have a text data file it should be
> extensible.  The location of the data file can no doubt be in other
> places than the ones listed.

FreeBSD: /usr/share/misc/units.lib
I suspect that holds for all the modern *BSDs.

My completion-fu sucks; how would this be able to detect automatically
something like FreeBSD units(1), which uses -v for the version:

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% units -v

  units version 1.0  Copyright (c) 1993 by Adrian Mariano
                    This program may be freely distributed
usage: units [-f unitsfile] [-q] [-v] [from-unit to-unit]
% 
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-Phil