When last we checked, our
intrepid lazy typer was trying to write a completion rule for
kibo to reduce his keystrokes a microscopic amount.
The working ‘kibo’ completion script:
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| #compdef kibo
_whowhere() {
local -a nicks channels
nicks=($(find ~/.irssi/log/* -name '[a-zA-Z0-9]*.log' -size +500c |
sed 'sX.*/X@X;s/.log//' | grep -v '[_|!]' | sort -u))
channels=($(find ~/.irssi/log/* -name '#*.log' -size +500c |
sed 's/.*#/#/;s/.log//' | grep -v '[_|!]' | sort -u))
_values "Who and where to find" "${nicks[@]}" "${channels[@]}"
}
_kibo() {
_alternative \
'args:custom arg:((-h\:"help" -c\:"add context"))' \
'whowhere:Who and where to find:_whowhere'
}
_kibo "$@"
|
Amusingly it’s way, way shorter than the one that didn’t work. Not an
uncommon occurrence really.
The key issue was that I kept thinking of # and @ as “flag
markers” like -. But it was just easier to treat them as _values
with my custom flag characters prepended.