Re: Complete global aliases?

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 01:27, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 7:27 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think that the global aliases should be completed out of the box, what
> do you say?
>
> I think there needs to be a bit more specification about how this would
> work.
>
> Where would this fit in the overall design of contexts?  E.g. does it
> happen in "-default-" context (which isn't always applied) and if so
> do alaises complete instead of files, as well as files, or only when
> there are no files (that is, _files returns nonzero)?
>

I'm not sure, however there's a solution on the web, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59513051/11999858

>
> Do the aliases expand or is just their name completed?


I think that only its name should be completed.



> What happens
> if you complete to the right of a global alias that (if expanded)
> changes the syntax of the command line


I think  that it shouldn't be expanded, so the issue isn't actual.
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Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski

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