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Programmatically loading completion for another command?
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- From: Vorpal <zsh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Programmatically loading completion for another command?
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 18:29:56 +0200
- Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/50297>
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Hi,
I'm writing completion for a command that has an option like:
--makepkg-args=comma,separated,list
where the comma separated list are arguments to the makepkg command.
I thus though I could use "_sequence _makepkg". Unfortunately this
doesn't work if the user hasn't tried to tab complete "makepkg" yet.
Even more annoying _makepkg is defined in a file with a different name
(_pacman) and the following #compdef at the top:
#compdef pacman pacman.static=pacman pacman-conf pacman-key makepkg
I.e. _makepkg is not the main "service" of the completion definition
file. That file has a main completion function that dispatches on $service
* How do I trigger loading that file from my completion so I can offer
completions to the flag --makepkg-args? Is it even possible?
* Or should I make a wrapper that calls _pacman and overrides $service
locally?
Both of these approaches seem rather hackish. It would be nice if I
could ask zsh: give me whatever is used to complete the command "makepkg".
Best regards,
Arvid Norlander
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