Re: Complete global aliases?

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 03:46, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 2:43 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 01:27, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Where would this fit in the overall design of contexts?
> >
> > I'm not sure, however there's a solution on the web, see:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/59513051/11999858
>
> That solution gives the user control over when global aliases are
> completed, by adding a function that can be placed anywhere in the
> completer zstyle.  The suggested value of that zstyle happens to make
> global aliases complete before anything else, but that doesn't answer
> the question of how a default should work.
>
Maybe looking from named dirs perspective can help? Currently, cd ~HO<tab>
doesn't complete, too. I think that lack of such an obvious feature can
make forward a way of completing also global aliases (like alias -g HOME
~)? How should be ~HOME completed I think that everybody knows (with
exception of me)? The global aliases should be completed the same.


> >> Do the aliases expand or is just their name completed?
> >
> > I think that only its name should be completed.
>
> I'll note that theoretically the ^Xa key binding (expand aliases) can
> be programmed to complete when a partial word matches an alias and
> expand when a full word matches.  I didn't attempt setting up the
> necessary zstyle contexts.
>
> When I tried ^Xa on my incomplete global alias it didn't complete…


> > I think  that it shouldn't be expanded, so the issue isn't actual.
>
> Upon further thought, I agree that it's not an issue for completion of
> an alias itself.  More generally, though, if the expansion of a global
> alias contains ";" or "|" or "&&" or "||" etc., then ideally further
> completions shouldn't be using the context of the preceding command
> word.  Unfortunately that requires checking every word to the left of
> the cursor for a global alias, and expanding it, to get the "real"
> context.
>

Could it just complete like ~HO<tab> should ? I don't really see the
context issue, HO and ~HO should just complete…

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Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski

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