Re: completion with descriptions

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Andy Spiegl wrote:
> How can I provide a description for every offered completion
> like e.g. "kill" does it nicely?
> 
> In my completion function I tried like this:
>    ':cmds: compadd ${${(f)"$(gigaset --commands)"}%%[[:space:]]##--*}' \

You need to use the _describe function; see the zshcompsys manual.
There are examples of this buried in various places.  You probably won't
be able to do it inline; you need to create an array with elements
containing both completions and descriptions separated by a colon.

Here's a noddy example.

_foo() {
  local -a d
  d=(foo:"The word foo" bar:"A rod")
  _describe "noddy example" d
}
compdef _foo foo

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