Re: Programmatically loading completion for another command?

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote on Fri, 27 May 2022 17:03 +00:00:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 9:30 AM Vorpal <zsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * How do I trigger loading that file from my completion so I can offer
>> completions to the flag --makepkg-args? Is it even possible?
>
> Something like this should work, no other wrapper needed:
>
>   service=makepkg _sequence $_comps[makepkg]
>
> In my install the service dispatcher function is _pkgtool not _pacman,

There's two different makepkg(1) tools, it seems: the one completed by
zsh's _pkgtool file, and Arch Linux' tool, completed by
<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/scripts/completion/zsh_completion.in>.

> so using $_comps[makepkg] in the call to _sequence should get the
> right one, whichever.
>
> (Nod over to Daniel on the _services thread.)