Re: Proposal: Let compinit make standard widgets with _generic instead of _main_complete

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:09 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

>
> A potential issue with this is that it introduces a difference for
> other wrapper widgets that assume _main_complete is THE completion
> entry point.
>

How about this?  It introduces a generic-widgets style, a list of widget
names that _main_complete hands off to _generic (which changes the context
and hands them back).

diff --git a/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
b/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
index 169ca1f40..62d94e3ae 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
+++ b/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
 # In case non-standard separators are in use.
 local IFS=$' \t\n\0'

+# Test generic-widgets only in global context to avoid recursion
+if [[ "${curcontext:-:::}" == ::: ]] &&
+   zstyle -t ":completion:::::" generic-widgets "$WIDGET"
+then
+    _generic "$@"
+    return
+fi
+
 # If you want to complete only set or unset options for the unsetopt
 # and setopt builtin, un-comment these lines:
 #

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