Re: Using CVS Completion Functions

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> autoload +X _cvs
> functions[_cvs]=${functions[_cvs]%$'\n'*}
> _cvs
> 
> This removes the last line of the initial _cvs function, which happens
> to be the one that calls the redefined function.  As the function is
> still redefined, future cvs completion will still work fine.

I've missed one additional subtlety.  You don't want to do that when
_cvs is already loaded, so you need something like

if [[ $functions[_cvs] = "builtin autoload"* ]]; then
  autoload +X _cvs
  functions[_cvs]=${functions[_cvs]%$'\n'*}
  _cvs
fi

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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