Re: PATCH: git --pretty completion, and (new) completion for npm

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/8/3 Nikolai Weibull <now@xxxxxxxx>:
> 2011/3/20 Johan Sundström <oyasumi@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 03:35, Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Johan Sundström wrote:
>>> > I took to adding documented completion for to the git completer for
>>> syntax that
>>> > is impossible to remember and hard to find in the man page; git log
>>> --pretty
>>> > (and whichever other commands support --pretty / --format) now covers the
>>> whole
>>> > lot except %w, which seemed like it would need a whole little state
>>> machine in
>>> > itself.
>
>>> Hm. This only works for stuff directly after the `=', doesn't it? As in:
>>>
>>> % git log -1 --pretty=%<tab>
>
>> Correct; enough to document what the properties are when there's just the
>> one you're interested in (for me it's usually %H for the commit hash), but
>> sub-ideal for longer formats.
>>
>> But not in:
>>>
>>> % git log -1 --pretty="%H %<tab>
>>>
>>> That would be pretty useful, don't you think?
>
>> It certainly would, but I fear my completion beard is not quite long enough
>> yet for me to pull off that state machine, myself. :-)
>
> This was never applied.  Is anyone interested in having this added?
> If so, it should be cleaned up and should probably add proper %w
> handling and multiple-item handling.
>

Not sure if this helps you,
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2011/msg00861.html but it also
completes a bunch of %stuff after an assignment, so it seems similar.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson