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Re: use tab-completion rules extracted from man page

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Paul Joey Clark <pclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: use tab-completion rules extracted from man page
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:05:35 -0400
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx, ian@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040505024226.GA22722@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> I wrote this script to extract all the - and -- options of any program
> from its man page, and use them as possible words for completion.

The _arguments function can already extract options from the --help
output of the program, though not the manpage.

> 	compctl -f -c -u -r -K joeyComplete -H 0 '' "*" -tn

compctl is the old, deprecated method of zsh programmable completion.  You
may want to look into the new, function-based (compsys) method to
achieve your ends.

References:
- use tab-completion rules extracted from man page
  - From: joey

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