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Re: Completion: How to show description for current option?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Completion: How to show description for current option?
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 13:41:54 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 1:27 PM Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The comparguments -O has decided that there are no possible completion
> matches which is arguably true because -c is already there and, because
> we passed -s to _arguments, it is now trying to complete further options

To rephrase this in English, one step up the chain, the difficulty is
that we've told _arguments that short options can be stacked, so -c
could just be the first in a string of single letter options all in
the same shell word.

References:
- Completion: How to show description for current option?
  - From: Marlon Richert
- Re: Completion: How to show description for current option?
  - From: Oliver Kiddle

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