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Re: "antecedents" [was Re: a couple of completion questions]
- X-seq: zsh-workers 11818
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: "antecedents" [was Re: a couple of completion questions]
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:36:31 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Clint Adams's message of Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:06:50 -0400
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Clint Adams wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't understand... what do you want to do?
>
> Okay. I want to use _arguments -A in the state switch at the bottom.
> Originally, install and record_avail were the same case, but when I
> added -A, they wouldn't complete, so I had to insert the options
> that had gotten the user to that state, which is why install and
> record_avail are two separate cases now.
>
> I want to avoid making remove, purge, status, and listfiles
> four separate cases, yet still retain the -A to _arguments.
> My last resort would probably be to define four new arrays with
> the short and long options and then use something like
> ${(P)${:-_dpkg_actions_${state}}}, but I was hoping that there
> was a better way.
Aha. Well, if it finds a string not described by one of the
option-specs it has to take it to be an argument.
Hm, should we add an option, to be combined with -A (or an argument to
-A?) to tell it that it should consider words starting with [-+] to be
arguments? Or, probably better, let -A take an argument, a pattern and
all words matching it are not taken to be arguments and hence don't
keep it from completing option.
Bye
Sven
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