Re: Using the same completion function for various commands

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:03:51 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2010/12/6 JÃrÃmie Roquet <arkanosis@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2010/12/6 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> You can also do this in your .zshrc instead of in the completer if
> >> you wish, just write
> >> compdef _foo -p 'foo_*'
> >>
> >> At least that's what the documentation says, it doesn't seem to
> >> work that well.
> >
> > It works fine for me with 4.3.10, did I miss something?
> 
> When i tried compdef _du -p foo_\*, i only got single-letter options
> completed.
> 

That means it's working perfectly.  It's hitting this line at the top of
_du

  _pick_variant gnu=Free\ Soft unix --version /dummy/no-such-file

and deciding, quite reasonably in my opinion, that foo_\* is not a GNU
variant of du.  So it's going to the other branch, where the options are
simpler.

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