Re: Enabling tab-completion for an alias

[Anonymous bin Ich <ichbinanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:18:19 +0200
"Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Mikael Magnusson skrev:
> >>
> >> 2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>
> >>> Mikael Magnusson skrev:
> >>>>
> >>>> 2008/6/13 David Sveningsson <ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi, I'm having some trouble with tab-completion. I've created
> >>>>> an alias for
> >>>>> svn (subversion) which runs a pythonscript executing svn. One
> >>>>> of the reasons
> >>>>> for this is that I use the script to colorize the output.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However this caused zsh to stop tab-completing svn commands,
> >>>>> eg. I used to
> >>>>> be able to type "svn res[tab]" and it completes to "svn
> >>>>> resolved". Is there
> >>>>> a way to enable the same tab-completions for my alias?
> >>>>
> >>>> Assuming your alias is
> >>>> alias svn="myfoobarscript --blabla"
> >>>> then you can put in
> >>>> compdef _svn myfoobarscript=svn
> >>>> and it should complete the same as svn
> >>>>
> >>> Almost, it looks like
> >>> alias svn="python ~/bin/svnc.py"
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible anyway? Otherwise I guess I could always just wrap
> >>> that in a
> >>> shellscript.
> >>
> >> Easy solution is chmod +x ~/bin/svnc.py and change the alias to
> >> just the script.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You're right, anyway, I could not use "compdef _svn
> > myfoobarscript=svn" but if I removed _svn it works. Thanks for your
> > help!
> 
> Oh i guess the actual file is _subversion, not _svn, I didn't know you
> could give the foo=bar thing without specifying the completer :).
> 
Actually, I use

compdef '_svn' myfoobarscript

and that works :)