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Re: _cpio

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: _cpio
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:10:14 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:41:59 +0100
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Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Why do I need the * before the destination directory completion for -p?  It
> should work with a 1 or just the bare colon, but for some reason it doesn't
> for me.

Because in that call to _arguments there is no description for the -p
option, so it thinks that is the first (and then-only) argument.

This can be fixed by telling _arguments the options it has to expect
but not to complete, using the '!-p' syntax.  Alternatively one could
use -A '-*' to say that all unknown string beginning with a hyphen are 
to be `ignored' there.

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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