From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Why does _main_complete not try the next completer when $_comp_mesg is non-zero?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 10:46:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bksUsvS6ixQ-zkCeYYf9+mrE4qz7CuVKW8CGuv=MAjOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHLkEDt+5xiu62fLb2Gp9gQOh9Q_o8+-He64fooMMxPceon4vA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 9:34 AM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The following line in _main_complete
>
> [[ -n "$_comp_mesg" ]] && break
>
> has the effect that, whenever _message has been called (with only few
> exceptions), the next completer won't be tried, _even when
> $compstate[nmatches] is zero._
This is documented, though not precisely accurately:
... Note that if there
are no matches at the time this function is called,
compstate[insert] is cleared, so additional matches generated later
are not inserted on the command line.
> Why? What is the reason for this?
_message is intended to be called as a last resort when the completion
function believes it is impossible to generate matches.
(FWIW, I think this behavior pre-dates the ability to complete words
from history, which obviously means it's never literally impossible to
generate something.)
> And is there a convenient way to work around this behavior?
What does "convenient" mean here? More convenient than just invoking
a binding for history-complete when you see the message, so that the
_grep completion is bypassed?
You might be able to do something by specifying a different completion
for the tag :completion::complete:grep:argument-1:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-28 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-28 16:33 Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 17:10 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-03-28 17:27 ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-03-28 18:06 ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-28 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-28 21:42 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-29 1:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-31 6:29 ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-31 9:25 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-31 10:07 ` Marlon Richert
2021-03-31 23:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-01 5:11 ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-01 17:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-02 12:58 ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-03 3:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-05 10:26 ` Marlon Richert
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