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Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
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- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:05:26 +0000
- In-reply-to: <200007240852.KAA05409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Jul 24, 10:52am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
}
} > Many GNU commands include short options in the --help output as well
} > [...]
} > Is there a reason that we don't attempt to complete the short forms?
}
} _arguments '-e:ea:(1 2)' -e -b -p
}
} This will make `foo -e <TAB>' complete `1' and `2' but `foo -' lists
} both (with auto-descriptions).
I don't understand here what you mean by "`foo -' lists both".
} The code in _arguments takes care that the user-supplied specs are
} preferred over the automatically derived ones, though.
Using the 3.1.9-dev-3 version of _arguments, I tried all of:
_tst() { _arguments '--e:ea:(1 2)' -- } # Case 1
_tst() { _arguments -- '--e:ea:(1 2)' } # Case 2
_tst() { _arguments -- '*--e:ea:(1 2)' } # Case 3
In combination with:
tst() { print -l - --e --b --p }
compdef _tst tst
Case 1: Completion after `tst' lists --e --b --p and completion after
`tst --e' lists 1 2.
Case 2: Completion after `tst' lists --e --b --p and completion after
`tst --e' completes `--' and then lists --b and --p; 1 or 2 are never
completed.
Case 3: Exactly like Case 2.
So case 1 behaves as I expected, and case 3 appears to be broken. (I
also tried '*e:ea:(1 2)' and a few other patterns.) I'm not sure what
I should be expecting from case 2.
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