On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:41:30PM +0000, Uwe Werler wrote:
> On 17 Jan 22:32, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 22:03, Uwe Werler <uwe.wer...@retiolum.eu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi misc,
> > >
> > > I use heavily the feature to set command completion in ksh. Unfortunately
> > > this doesn't work for commands with "-" (like ssh-add, salt-call etc.) in
> > > command name because the parameter name for the array is invalid.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I'm getting what you're saying. I have a barebone
> > plain-vanilla OpenBSD 6.6 installation and I have ksh as my login
> > shell. I can do command and file completion with [TAB] on any commands
> > with a hyphen (pkg-config, ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-keygen, ssh-keyscan
> > and so on).
>
> >From man 1 ksh:
>
> Custom completions may be configured by creating an array named
> ‘complete_command’, optionally suffixed with an argument number
> to complete only for a single argument. So defining an array
> named ‘complete_kill’ provides possible completions for any
> argument to the kill(1) command, but ‘complete_kill_1’ only
> completes the first argument. For example, the following command
> makes ksh offer a selection of signal names for the first
> argument to kill(1):
>
> set -A complete_kill_1 -- -9 -HUP -INFO -KILL -TERM
>
> This of course can't work for commands with a hyphen because the parameter
> name
> of the array is then invalid.
>
> Uwe
A somewhat ugly workaround would be to define aliases for the commands
that you want te install these completions for. The aliases would have
no dashes in their names.
alias ssh_add=ssh-add
set -A complete_ssh_add_1 -- -D -l -L -v
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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden
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