From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12891 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 07:41:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 38525 Received: (qmail 11538 invoked from network); 20 May 2016 07:41:17 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:subject:references:to:cc:from :organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BslZ6v7x0Cnm228MfhrCLZPz9IedIO+qixpZ9TvSd7U=; b=eI7qlsUu24fRmiVb9rpZ/dFxQDnKLppKh3VcX/b4NPYFf5IyoCUNOecqjK17Hc0Xtt uAbtR9CQrn3MHpVH0HoHNJl0b4/3DcK490RKlZgmQbyH+vYCgFOnHw2MAGaIbR8+fE9t RafX6hrDmRj3Ny4/rUzYaon6ULLHBOwWkI/XYT/DbmqNpMmCrB6FVsuwuu0aKwtTiMPC /RXMDrDV3Jkp0+B4rCxANzafnERgmw1OxgJIn0sYLZtpJ3qmUp+50AcUmczRjhKOrPmD 6Nm0/ig0tqd9/KnXddNLGcXkuXViXYM/nLg39ZAZom+1VdR1kDH/Hqb2xZAq62nnmxU8 wyVA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FV3cdLD4m5lZwFn5D+SmDz4bl82lZHPQlWfhK5ZPL2zhSobIPlcDdUSNudYx94nSnJE X-Received: by 10.28.45.9 with SMTP id t9mr2049090wmt.89.1463730074627; Fri, 20 May 2016 00:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: Marko Myllynen Subject: Re: zsh pid completion References: <573AF76D.2010106@redhat.com> <20160519211405.GA8007@tarsus.local2> To: Daniel Shahaf , Mikael Magnusson Cc: zsh workers From: Marko Myllynen Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: <573EBF96.80806@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:41:10 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160519211405.GA8007@tarsus.local2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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" works better than plain pidof(8). Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen