Re: status of the cssh autocompletion

[Thomas Kupper <thomas.kupper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2017 15:53:09 +0200
> Thomas Kupper <thomas.kupper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I recently switched to zsh from bash and miss the more complete
> > autocompletion for cssh. Even google didn't show any user which modified
> > or extended the _cssh file.
> >
> > Is there a specify reason for it? Do I miss the obvious?
> >
> > Now I created an extend (but not yet finished) autocompletion. Is there
> an
> > interest to include that into the upstream zsh? What would be the
> process.
>
> There will almost certainly be no other reason than that nobody else has
> produced an update yet.
>
> For a few completions, the developers of the utility supply their own
> versions of the completion function in their distribution, which allows
> them to match the completion to the version of their firmware.  But this
> is a rare case, and usually when that happens the more limited on in the
> zsh distribution would be deleted.
>
> For everything else --- simply send a patch to update the function(s) to
> the zsh-workers@xxxxxxx list and we'll gladly add it to the distribution.
>
> pws
>
Thanx Peter for the explanation, I'll send the patch to workers@zsh when I
finished patching the current one up.

Have a good day