On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:28:52PM +0200, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

[snip]

> 
> At least based on the documentation, _alternative is supposed to take
> _arguments like specifications. Apparently it works with a list of
> functions as you have done. An example would be:
> 
> _alternative \
>   'additional-commands:additional command:((check\:check\ status\ of\ service))' \
>   'lsb-commands: : _describe -t lsb-commands "LSB command" sv_lsb_ary' \
>   'sv-commands:sv command:_sv_commands'

So when I tested this it made me realize something.  The way I had it
initially was so that the commands would come first, and then the lsb
commands would be listed, and then finally the additional command.  I
tried passing _alternative -V foo like you can with _describe to
preserve order byt I couldn't get that to work.  Any ideas?

> > This raises an interesting question.  I did what you said, but as
> > Christian Neukirchen pointed out, on his system the default SVDIR is
> > /var/service, and on ubuntu the default is /etc/service.  I guess it's
> > up to the packager to tweak the script or something?
> 
> I guess it could try to find out what distribution you have by checking
> for release files in /etc and choosing a suitable default accordingly.
> 

I'll look into that.

[snip]

> >  Completion/Unix/Command/_sv | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> One thing I forgot to mention is that it should be named _runit:
> functions are normally named after the software rather than the command,
> e.g. _subversion for svn.
> 

Done.

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