From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20805 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 12:38:14 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 12:38:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 27611 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2003 12:38:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 18354 Received: (qmail 27604 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 12:38:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 12:38:08 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [212.125.75.4] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 12:38:7 -0000 Received: (qmail 8925 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 12:38:06 -0000 Received: from iris.logica.co.uk (158.234.9.163) by server-5.tower-1.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 12:38:06 -0000 Received: from finches.logica.co.uk ([158.234.142.11]) by iris.logica.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id MAA26923 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:38:06 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: iris.logica.co.uk: Host [158.234.142.11] claimed to be finches.logica.co.uk Received: from finches.logica.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by finches.logica.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id h2ECfp809209 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:41:51 +0100 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) X-VirusChecked: Checked In-reply-to: <4206.1047586066@csr.com> From: Oliver Kiddle References: <4206.1047586066@csr.com> Subject: Re: Unsorted completion list from _describe? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:41:51 +0100 Message-ID: <9207.1047645711@finches.logica.co.uk> Peter wrote: > Does anyone have any idea of how to get _describe (the lowest level > completion function that handles verbose descriptions for completion > lists) not to sort the completion list? It ought to be something to do > with passing down `-V' as an option somewhere, but I can't get it to > work and _describe and the bits below aren't all that transparent. >>From looking at _describe, I'm fairly sure that it doesn't offer a way of passing options on. If you ignore all the parts of _describe which aren't easy to understand (i.e. the compdescribe builtin), it isn't too hard to make it pass options on. But without understanding it all first, I'd be worried about breaking something. Oliver