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Re: Activating the completion functions for the various Unix commands.

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From: James Andrewartha <trs80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Thomas L. Bevan" <thomas_bevan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Activating the completion functions for the various Unix commands.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:48:19 +0800 (WST)
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Thomas L. Bevan wrote:

> As a new user, I've noticed that zsh bundles with a large number of functions
> that seem to allow flag completion for the common unix functions.
>
> How should I set up my .zshrc file so that I can take advantage of them?

The simple way (according to the zshcompsys man page) is:
autoload -U compinit
compinit

You can also run compinstall to install and customise zshcompsys to taste.

James Andrewartha

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- Activating the completion functions for the various Unix commands.
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