Re: completion within a function

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:43 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 9:22 AM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > After removing all the unnecessary stuff from the tests, I came up
> > with this script that does list completions:
>
> I think it might be possible to do something even less complicated.
> The basic idea is to first borrow this from the manual:
>
>   zle -C all-matches complete-word _generic
>   bindkey '^Xa' all-matches
>   zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer \
>                  _all_matches _complete
>   zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' insert true
>
> And then:
>
>   do-complete() { zle -U $'\Cxa\n' }
>   zle -N do-complete
>   run-complete () {
>     vared -i do-complete argv
>   }
>   complete() {
>     local -i n=$argc
>     zpty complete-tty run-complete "$@"
>     zpty -r complete-tty
>     zpty -d complete-tty
>   }
>
> There is likely some additional quoting needed on $@ to assure the
> right arguments are passed to run-complete, and some more could be
> done to separate the context from the results.

I don't know what that's supposed to do, but nothing happens when I
run: complete "g" (other than the fact that "g" is printed).

-- 
Felipe Contreras