* _complete_help fails in some contexts
@ 2021-05-07 21:53 Bart Schaefer
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 2021-05-07 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This occurs for example when pressing ^Xh immediately after:
% : ${()
In this specific case it seems to be because _parameters never calls
_describe, so never goes through the _tags loop, which _complete_help
relies upon to populate its results. It calls _description directly
(instead?).
On cursory inspection, most completion functions do one of: call
_describe; call both _tags and _description; or call _description but
then call another function (such as _files) that does one of those
first two.
I haven't come up with a simple way to find examples other than
_parameters that never manage to call _tags at all.
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