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Re: autocompletion with remote hosts

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From: Daniel Friesel <derf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mr.SpOOn" <mr.spoon21@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: autocompletion with remote hosts
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:35:24 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Mr.SpOOn wrote:
> Hi,
> in bash I somehow managed to have autocompletion for remote hosts and
> directory when I used ssh and scp.
> 
> I can't find a way to have the same in zsh.
> Can you help me?

The way I do this is:

> zstyle ':completion:*' hosts host1 host2 host3 ...
in .zshrc

Theoretically, the completion for ssh/scp/etc. is also able to read the
hosts for completion directly from ~/.ssh/config or ~/.ssh/known_hosts,
however due to some fuckup (which so far noone could explain to me) it
never does this.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: autocompletion with remote hosts
  - From: Andrey Borzenkov

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