From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: "praful mathur" <dasickis@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Completion help
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:31:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080512153136.38d17b6b@news01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <563731560805120712r53a42ed0gda7b2260276faa0f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:12:33 -0400
"praful mathur" <dasickis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please direct me where this question has already been answered?
> I've tried looking in zshall but I can't quite find an answer to my
> question.
I didn't really follow your original question since you're code doesn't
seem to correspond to how the completion system actually works.
If you want to know how to use _arguments, start by looking at the many
existing completion functions that call _arguments and compare with what's
in the description for _arguments in the zshcompsys manual page.
For example, _hash (in Completion/Zsh/Command in the source) has the same
problem of dealing with an option -d that gets followed by a directory and
isn't as hairy of some of the files. You will have to look around and if
you get stuck ask *specific* questions with which people will have more
time to help.
If you want a step-by-step guide, try the online guide at
http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/zshguide06.html#l177
(that's the tutorial section for completion: you might want to start
earlier).
For more detailed guidance, our book
From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line (Paperback)
by Oliver Kiddle (Author), Jerry Peek (Author), Peter Stephenson (Author)
Paperback: 472 pages
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has a lot on completion.
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2008-05-12 14:12 ` praful mathur
2008-05-12 14:31 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-05-12 21:28 ` praful mathur
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