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Re: Automatic long options completion for --?

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Automatic long options completion for --?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:02:44 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:00:10 +0400
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> Struggling with Cygwin I found myself wishing to get at least trivial
> completion for arbitrary command with long options.
> 
> Is it possible to complete after -- for *any* command (of course, assuming
> that no specific completion is defined)?

compdef -P _use_lo '*'

> Of course, if this could extract help text as well ... :-)

We had this before. Sometimes just telling us about great ideas is
enough. Sometimes we need more help and sometimes we don't feel like
implementing this ourselves ;-)

So, if you can come up with something reasonable, that is guaranteed
to never produce a wrong description but at least sometimes gives the
right one...

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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