Re: [PATCH] _git: Add completion for help subcommand

[Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 18:43, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> On Aug 26,  9:55am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> } Perhaps. The common pattern I saw when I began writing completion
> } functions was
> }
> } (    --b --c)--a
> } (--a     --c)--b
> } (--a --b    )--c

> Nikolai, I think you're missing the point of the abc example you quoted.
>
> In that example, every set inside the parens is different, and the writer
> of the function chose to lay them out so that it was obvious where the
> differences were.

That had not alluded me.  What I never “understood” was why the
standard form wasn’t to use a variable in this case.  I mean, the
difference is that you exclude the current option, which is of course
excluded by itself (unless its defined as being able to appear many
times).