Re: gnu cut completion as wrong as it can be, patch

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> Add + qualifiers to short options that take arguments. Add said
> arguments too. Remove a = from an option that does not take an
> argument. Complete files (hello?).

Without linewrapping the patch...

diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Command/_cut b/Completion/Unix/Command/_cut
index 7d7526d..b17cf7c 100644
--- a/Completion/Unix/Command/_cut
+++ b/Completion/Unix/Command/_cut
@@ -35,16 +35,17 @@ if _pick_variant gnu="Free Soft" unix --version; then
   esac

   _arguments \
-        '(--bytes -b)'{--bytes=,-b}'['$_cut_args[bytes]']' \
-        '(--characters -c)'{--characters=,-c}'['$_cut_args[characters]']' \
-        '(--delimiter -d)'{--delimiter=,-d}'['$_cut_args[delimiter]']' \
-        '(--fields -f)'{--fields=,-f}'['$_cut_args[fields]']' \
+        '(--bytes -b+)'{--bytes=,-b}'['$_cut_args[bytes]']:list' \
+        '(--characters -c+)'{--characters=,-c}'['$_cut_args[characters]']:list' \
+        '(--delimiter -d+)'{--delimiter=,-d}'['$_cut_args[delimiter]']:delimeter' \
+        '(--fields -f+)'{--fields=,-f}'['$_cut_args[fields]']:list' \
         '-n['$_cut_args[n]']' \
         '--complement['$_cut_args[complement]']' \
-        '(--only-delimited -s)'{--only-delimited=,-s}'['$_cut_args[only-delimited]']' \
-        '--output-delimiter['$_cut_args[output-delimiter]']' \
+        '(--only-delimited -s)'{--only-delimited,-s}'['$_cut_args[only-delimited]']' \
+        '--output-delimiter=['$_cut_args[output-delimiter]']:delimeter' \
         '--help['$_cut_args[help]']' \
-        '--version['$_cut_args[version]']'
+        '--version['$_cut_args[version]']' \
+        '*:file:_files'
 else
   _arguments \
     '-b[list specifies byte positions]:list:' \

--
Mikael Magnusson