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Re: complete as some other sub command

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: complete as some other sub command
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:59:48 +0000 (GMT)
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> On 04/11/2024 16:42 GMT Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello, is it possible to make a function to inherit the completion contest of another sub command? in my case i would like to make the function gd complete as it was "git diff"

The simple way is

autoload -X _git   # fails if _git is already loaded, harmless
compdef _git-diff gd

Others may be able to think of gotchas requiring something a bit
more sophisticated.

pws

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