From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>,
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: zsh pid completion
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:41:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573EBF96.80806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160519211405.GA8007@tarsus.local2>
Hi,
On 2016-05-20 00:14, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote on Tue, May 17, 2016 at 18:48:24 +0200:
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I see that _pids completion offers only a very limited subset of the
>>> running pids (even by the same user). For example, if I launch a command
>>> on a terminal its PID is not included in completion alternatives on
>>> another terminal. Also, when root, in some cases it might be beneficial
>>> to offer also non-root PIDs (perhaps this could be configurable).
>>>
>>> Is there some reason for this limited approach? (I'm not sending any
>>> patches yet, I'm afraid with ps(1) portability might be a bit tricky.)
>>
>> No need for a patch, you can just set a style to run whatever ps
>> command you like to generate the matches, i use:
>> zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps ax -o
>> user,pid,nice,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tname,stat,start,time,command
>> --sort=-%cpu'
>>
>> These are also possible
>> zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps aux'
>> zstyle ':completion:*:processes' command 'ps --forest -A -o pid,user,cmd'
>
> There's also a variant that allows cycling through user processes, all
> user processes, and all processes:
>
> http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=20372
>
> ('_next_tags' is a widget that needs to be bindkey'd; I bind it to ^Xn)
Nice, this is handy indeed. The next thing I was about to as was
completions for pidof(8) but with the above something like "ps s<tab>"
works better than plain pidof(8).
Thanks,
--
Marko Myllynen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-20 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-17 10:50 Marko Myllynen
2016-05-17 16:48 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-05-19 21:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-05-20 7:41 ` Marko Myllynen [this message]
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