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Re: Help for currently-completed argument?

2009/11/12 Benjamin R. Haskell <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> While trying to learn how Zsh's completion system works, I remembered a
> question that briefly came to mind a while back:
>
> Is there a way to pull up the '[explanation]' portion of a command's
> argument completions after it's been typed?
>
> e.g. I frequently mix up various '-h', '-H', '-l', and '-L' flags, since
> they often have something to do with symlinks, but not always in the same
> direction.  (Sometimes it's 'follow the symlink' sometimes 'don't
> follow').  So, when typing this:
>
> $ rsync -l
>
> Is there a function to pull up the line:
>
> --links             -l           -- copy symlinks as symlinks

Yes and I don't know (as in "yes and no"). If you rsync
--links<ctrl-d> you will get that line, but for rsync -l<ctrl-d> you
just get the other short options. If you know the --links part it
probably doesn't help though...

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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