Re: Proposal: Let compinit make standard widgets with _generic instead of _main_complete

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:24 PM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How would you feel about changing compinit, so that it rebinds the
> standard widgets with `zle -C $_i_line .$_i_line _generic` instead of
> `zle -C $_i_line .$_i_line _main_complete`?

A potential issue with this is that it introduces a difference for
other wrapper widgets that assume _main_complete is THE completion
entry point.  For example, _complete_debug will no longer have an
accurate context as compared to complete-word.  That potentially
affects the following other functions:

Completion/Base/Completer/_expand_alias
Completion/Base/Widget/_bash_completions
Completion/Base/Widget/_complete_debug
Completion/Base/Widget/_complete_help
Completion/Base/Widget/_complete_tag
Completion/Base/Widget/_correct_word
Completion/Base/Widget/_expand_word
Completion/Base/Widget/_history_complete_word
Completion/Base/Widget/_next_tags

The ones of most concern are _complete_{debug,help,tag} (it's not
sufficient to simply call _generic inside those functions, because
_generic will insert the name of the wrapper widget into the context)
and of least concern is _bash_completions (which can presumably just
ignore this).  I haven't investigated whether any adjustment to the
others is possible or needed.