Presumably you could do something like this:
```
function complete
complete --authoritative $argv
end
funcsave complete
```
I have not tested this. Make backups and ensure you have an alternative
shell installed and enabled if you are going to try it, because you might
need to delete ~/.config/fish/functions/complete.fish.
[DAA]
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Santhosh T wrote:
> HI David,
>
> so the feature is there. is there any way to make authoritative by default
> explicitly
>
> - santhosh
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:24 AM, David Adam <zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
> > This functionality was altered before the release of fish 2.0.0.
> >
> > Commit 6eb66770a49944 [1] makes completions non-authoritative by default.
> > If you pass the `--authoritative` argument to your completions, the
> > behaviour you describe will return. However, this is not enabled for
> > completions shipped with fish because of the difficulty in maintaining
> > parity between these completions and the upstream program.
> >
> > With the next release of fish, a supported path for completions shipped by
> > upstream vendors will be available; these can make use of the
> > `--authoritative` option for even better syntax highlighting.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > David Adam
> > zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/6eb66770a49944
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Santhosh T wrote:
> > > the article http://lwn.net/Articles/136232/ says that
> > > fish shell can show misspelled options as errors.
> > >
> > > it has a screenshot also where "--colour" is highlighted in red in "ls
> > > --colour" command.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > when I tried the same, it didn't work.
> > >
> > > so i asked the question....
> > >
> > > - santhosh
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Cedric Auger <sedri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2014-10-31 17:58 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T <santhosh.tek...@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > >> when i type "ls --unknownoption"
> > > >>
> > > >> i am expected "--unknownoption" to be shown in red.
> > > >>
> > > >> fish only showing wrong commands in red color, but not wrong options
> > > >>
> > > >> i already did run "fish_update_completions"
> > > >>
> > > >> I am using MAC
> > > >>
> > > >> thanks
> > > >> Santhosh
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > I first glance, I would say, that it is not a realistic feature.
> > > > How could you tell if a given option is a right or a wrong one?
> > > >
> > > > For the command, work is easy: just ask the file system is there is
> > such
> > > > an executable program.
> > > > But there is no Unix command which tells given a program and options if
> > > > they are compatible.
> > > > Of course, like autocompletion, you could forbid some options (but that
> > > > would concern only very specific programs for which the set of "good"
> > > > options can be easily known).
> > > > Plus there should be some clever parsing, as for example "ls --
> > > > --unknownoption" is a valid command (at least on the Ubuntu version I
> > have).
> > > > That is because I can create a file named "--unknownoption".
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > .../Sedrikov\...
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > David Adam
> > zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> > Ask Me About Our SLA!
> >
>
Cheers,
David Adam
zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Ask Me About Our SLA!
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