Re: zstyle for _arguments feature request

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>]

Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> 
> I sent message workers/15664 back in August, but there was no response.
> 
> I was asking two things:
>  * a feature request that would make it possible to override/edit the
>    action field of an _arguments specification via zstyle.  For example in

Yes, this could be useful. The form in which I'd like to see it in is a
more general version of the fake-files and fake-parameters styles and
available in all contexts as opposed to just in _arguments.

>    _find the -fstype flag spec is missing ext2 used by linux:
> 
>     '*-fstype:filesystem type:(ufs 4.2 4.3 nfs tmp mfs S51K S52K)' \

In the case of this specific issue, should we maybe factor the
filesystem completion out of _mount into a new _filesystems that can
also be used here? 

>    It seemed that this would be a new use for zstyle, and people might
>    have some comments wrt using zstyle to define the completion rather
>    than just modifying the behavior of completion.

We should be careful how we document this. It should be a way of
tweaking available completions to fake extra matches and should not be
a substitute for writing functions.

>  * A completer for printf format strings using the "%" string.  I think
>    the real benefit would be the ability to see documentation for
>    the different format characters.

Yes it would be useful but perhaps a little messy to implement. I
thought about doing printf completion for printf as opposed to find
which is less useful. I suspect that this might be a good place to use
_regex_arguments but I've yet to look in any detail.

Oliver

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