Re: complete (real C) tags

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven wrote:
>   Actually, I've been tempted from the beginning to allow compadd to
>   get the matches not only from its positional parameters, but also
>   from arrays whose names are given as arguments. That would allow us
>   to stuff the matches into some array and then call:
> 
>     foo=(...)
>     _wanted ... compadd -a foo
> 
>   or some such.

This sounds a simple and effective solution.  I presume it could be done
with minimal changes --- just modify compadd argument handling and then
pass down the argument `-a carefully_chosen_parameter_name' (so as no to
clash with any parameters in the middle).

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