Re: PATCH: completion for perldoc

[Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson (pws@xxxxxx) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> > > _perldoc {
> > > ...
> > 
> > I forgot to say: this kills zsh :-(
> 
> There's no () after _perldoc, so it thinks it's a function call, not a
> definition.  You just generate hundreds of recursive calls to _perldoc
> until the machine gets board of having enough space on the stack, or
> something.

Yes, I'm ashamed to say this was indeed the problem, and as usually
happens, I only realised it after I'd posted.

> Also, since it's assumed in the completion functions that KSH_AUTOLOAD
> isn't set, you need to have as the last line `_perldoc "$@"' to call
> the function you've just defined.

Ah!  So /that's/ why I was having to press TAB twice.  Thanks.

> The may be a bug here.  Has anyone the slightest idea why `_perldoc {'
> is accepted as a complete command line with the argument "{"?

Nope.  I've been bitten by that more than just this once though; I
always forget the () ...