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Re: Completing multiple states with _arguments

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From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Completing multiple states with _arguments
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:20:34 +0000
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:49:41 +0100
Nikolai Weibull <now@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> How do I deal with multiple states when completing with _arguments?
> 
> local context state line
> typeset -A opt_args
> 
> _arguments \
>   ':: :->something-optional-before-files' \
>   '*:: :->file' && ret=0
> 
> # Now what?

Usually you would use "case $state ... esac" to handle the states, with
matches against something-optional-before-files, file, etc.  There are
quite a few uses of this if you search for $state in completion.

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