Re: [PATCH] Make _expand_alias more usable as a completer

["Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021, at 6:24 PM, Marlon Richert wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 12:08 AM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/20/21, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, at 5:42 PM, Marlon Richert wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 2:24 AM Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I also wonder if this would be better done from within _command_names
> > >> > directly but I'm not sure.
> > >>
> > >> Actually, I feel like it could instead be added to the _expand
> > >> completer. Would that be a better idea than what I presented in this
> > >> patch?
> > >
> > > Anyone have answers to Marlon's questions?
> >
> > If it helps, I disagree with conflating _expand_alias (expanding
> > aliases) and _expand (filename expansion).
> 
> _expand already handles a lot more than just "filename expansion"
> (which it actually does not handle at all). A quick test going through
> all forms of expansion listed at
> https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html shows that
> _expand currently handles all of the following:
> * parameter expansion
> * command substitution
> * arithmetic expansion
> * brace expansion
> * filename generation
> (but not history expansion, alias expansion, process substitution or
> filename expansion).
> 
> Since alias expansion is in fact listed at
> https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html, I don't think
> it would be too weird to add it to the _expand completer.

Any other feedback on 48946?

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vq