Re: Using the same completion function for various commands

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:10:20 +0000
Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:18:47 +0100
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ah, er, right. But. Is there any way to combine -p and saying
> > foo=du ? When I tried compdef _du -p 'foo_*=du' nothing happened.

Yes, I know, it *still* doesn't work, and you were about complain.

Is the following change to _pick_variant right?  Why we would ever
prefer $words[1] to $service, when this seems to be what $service is
for? Am I missing cases where you definitely don't want the basic
service run in order to check a variant?

Index: Completion/Base/Utility/_pick_variant
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Base/Utility/_pick_variant,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -p -u -r1.2 _pick_variant
--- Completion/Base/Utility/_pick_variant	28 Feb 2009 07:11:31 -0000	1.2
+++ Completion/Base/Utility/_pick_variant	6 Dec 2010 16:18:54 -0000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ local -A opts
 (( $+_cmd_variant )) || typeset -gA _cmd_variant
 
 zparseopts -D -A opts c: r:
-: ${opts[-c]:=$words[1]}
+: ${opts[-c]:=${service:-$words[1]}}
 
 while [[ $1 = *=* ]]; do
   var+=( "${1%%\=*}" "${1#*=}" )

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