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Escaping of : in a _describe completion

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From: Frank Blendinger <fb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Escaping of : in a _describe completion
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:03:19 +0200
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Sender: Frank Blendinger <yogan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I am trying to build a small completion for etherwake, which gives me
some MAC addresses together with their hostnames as descriptions. I came
up with something like this:

    _etherwake() {
        typeset -a etherwake_desc;
        etherwake_desc=("00:0c:6e:74:16:77:host1";"00:1b:63:31:4a:6b:host2");
        _describe etherwake etherwake_desc;
    }
    compdef _etherwake etherwake

This does not work, however, as the first `:' of each string in the
etherwake_desc array is used to separate the completion from the
description. I tried escaping the `:' characters of the MAC addresses
with `\', which did not help. Neither did putting ' or \" around the MAC
addresses.

How can I do it right?


Greetings,
Frank

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