Re: [PATCH] Let 'extra-verbose' completion show alias values

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Marlon Richert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:11 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm probably not going to take responsibility for committing this, but:
> >
> > If you do NOT have { zstyle ':completion:*' group-name '' } this
> > behaves a bit oddly.  External, builtin, and alias are all grouped
> > together, causing strange layout (the descriptions line up for
> > everything but the alias):
> >
> > valgrind           -- a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs
> > valgrind.bin       -- a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs
> > valgrind-di-server -- Experimental debuginfo server for valgrind
> > valgrind-listener  -- listens on a socket for Valgrind commentary
> > vared  -- noglob vared
> > vdir               -- list directory contents
> > vftovp             -- convert virtual font (vf) files to virtual property li...
> > vgdb               -- intermediary between Valgrind and GDB or a shell
> > (etc.)
> >
> > Also the set of names is not unique-ified, so if "vared" is an alias
> > (as in my test case) it also re-appears in the multi-column listing of
> > external commands because of the presence of the vared function in the
> > fpath.  Both of these issues go away with group-name styled.
> >
> > I have no opinion on whether these effects are significant enough to
> > be in need of repair, just making mention.
> 
> This also happens if you have extra-verbose but no group-name and you
> get both command & parameter completions in the same list:
> 
> % v
> vared  -- vared
> vim      -- Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor
> vim    -- vim
> vimdiff  -- edit two, three or four versions of a file with Vim and
> show differences
> vimtutor -- the Vim tutor
> vis      -- display non-printable characters in a visual format
> vm_stat  -- show Mach virtual memory statistics
> vmmap    -- Display the virtual memory regions allocated in a process
> vtool    -- Mach-O version number utility
> vared           venc_data_dump  vi              view            visualinfo

Any other feedback on 48947?

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