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Re: _argument sets [was Re: a couple of completion questions]
- X-seq: zsh-workers 11819
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: _argument sets [was Re: a couple of completion questions]
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:38:26 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Clint Adams's message of Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:38:31 -0400
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Clint Adams wrote:
> > I know nothing about dpkg and friends. In which way does it behave
> > differently from what's documented and how do you make use of it
> > (i.e.: is there something wrong? or only documented in the wrong way?
> > or should have both what it's doing and what's documented?)?
>
> Okay, first off, this is what I want. <arg> is meant to be
> -i, -A, or the long-option equivalents.
>
> dpkg <arg> <TAB> right now completes _files -g \*.deb by default.
> If I remove the -A to _arguments, it will complete $_dpkg_options.
> Ideally, it should complete _files -g \*.deb, $_dpkg_options,
> and $_dpkg_options_recursive, unless one of $_dpkg_options_recursive
> is present, in which case it should complete directories instead of
> \*.deb. BTW, I swapped the positions of -C and -A to _arguments.
>
> It does this, except for completing $_dpkg_options or
> $_dpkg_options_recursive. Or rather, it will for
>
> dpkg --install --<TAB>
> dpkg --install -<TAB>
> dpkg --install -O<TAB>
>
> but it won't complete for
>
> dpkg --install --a<TAB>
>
> So if I type dpkg --install --<TAB> I get --abort-after,
> but if I type --a<TAB>, I get corrections.
Aha, one of those. I'll look at _arguments at the weekend anyway and
have put it on my list.
Bye
Sven
P.S.: Due to the missing sub-indentation I didn't realise immediately
that _dpkg uses multiple sets.
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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