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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: _sh doing _normal completion
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:33:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180327203314.6c6fbdde@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh8lfxrf.fsf@gmail.com>

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:34:12 +0200
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> wrote:
> the default _sh completion tries _files, then falls back to _normal.
> However, sh, [t]csh and rc don't support this, and ksh/bash only
> support it for actual shell scripts.
> 
> So I wonder if this is a reasonable completion?

Do you mean falling back to _normal isn't sensible, i.e. it's not worth
assuming you can specify an executable command or similar after the file
name, since it's unlikely the shell can handle it? It's not a particularly
sophisticated fallback, certainly.  It's possible you could think of a
better way of searching for finding a script in the path, which I guess
is the real intention.  Until someone does, this is probably going to
stay the best we've got.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-27 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-27 13:34 Leah Neukirchen
2018-03-27 19:33 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2018-03-28 13:46   ` Leah Neukirchen
2018-03-28 13:59     ` Stephane Chazelas

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