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Re: completion and aliases

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: completion and aliases
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:37:24 +0100 (MET)
In-reply-to: blackie@xxxxxxx's message of 13 Jan 2000 16:32:35 +0100
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Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> Is it not possible to make a completion for an alias? If yes, must I do
> something special, if no, why not?

Aliases are expanded by the lexing code so that the completion
normally doesn't see them. You can make the completion (both 
compctl and the new system) work on names of aliases by setting the
COMPLETE_ALIASES option.

Hope that's what you meant.

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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