Re: Using the same completion function for various commands

Re: Using the same completion function for various commands

[Oliver Kiddle]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> It looks like you can't in general distinguish between two ways of using
> the service:

I don't think $service was ever intended to be usable as a command name.
The change also now assumes that the command is in your path which often
it isn't. It's also common to use /usr/gnu/bin/du and expect it to use
the GNU completions. Someone writing obscure wrappers can sooner be
expected to know what they're doing that someone specifying commands
with a full path.

> In the first case you have the simple alternative of defining
> 
> #compdef gdu
> _du "$@"
>
> which fixes the service for you.

And in the second case you have the simple alternative of using zstyle.
I've got tens of these and am not too keen on creating functions. And
why break backward compatibility?

Oliver

Re: Using the same completion function for various commands

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:51:54 +0100
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > It looks like you can't in general distinguish between two ways of
> > using the service:
> 
> I don't think $service was ever intended to be usable as a command
> name. The change also now assumes that the command is in your path
> which often it isn't. It's also common to use /usr/gnu/bin/du and
> expect it to use the GNU completions. Someone writing obscure
> wrappers can sooner be expected to know what they're doing that
> someone specifying commands with a full path.
> 
> > In the first case you have the simple alternative of defining
> > 
> > #compdef gdu
> > _du "$@"
> >
> > which fixes the service for you.
> 
> And in the second case you have the simple alternative of using
> zstyle. I've got tens of these and am not too keen on creating
> functions. And why break backward compatibility?

OK, if you've got stuff that actually breaks that's a good reason for
leaving it & I'll put it back the other way.

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