Re: Enabling tab-completion for an alias

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Mikael Magnusson skrev:
>>
>> 2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Mikael Magnusson skrev:
>>>>
>>>> 2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I'm having some trouble with tab-completion. I've created an alias
>>>>> for
>>>>> svn (subversion) which runs a pythonscript executing svn. One of the
>>>>> reasons
>>>>> for this is that I use the script to colorize the output.
>>>>>
>>>>> However this caused zsh to stop tab-completing svn commands, eg. I used
>>>>> to
>>>>> be able to type "svn res[tab]" and it completes to "svn resolved". Is
>>>>> there
>>>>> a way to enable the same tab-completions for my alias?
>>>>
>>>> Assuming your alias is
>>>> alias svn="myfoobarscript --blabla"
>>>> then you can put in
>>>> compdef _svn myfoobarscript=svn
>>>> and it should complete the same as svn
>>>>
>>> Almost, it looks like
>>> alias svn="python ~/bin/svnc.py"
>>>
>>> Is it possible anyway? Otherwise I guess I could always just wrap that in
>>> a
>>> shellscript.
>>
>> Easy solution is chmod +x ~/bin/svnc.py and change the alias to just the
>> script.
>>
>>
>
> You're right, anyway, I could not use "compdef _svn myfoobarscript=svn" but
> if I removed _svn it works. Thanks for your help!

Oh i guess the actual file is _subversion, not _svn, I didn't know you
could give the foo=bar thing without specifying the completer :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson