On 14 July 2015 at 08:42, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Only issue I could not find a solution to is tab completion after '=', >> for example: >> >> xxx --file=<TAB> >> >> This will not complete files, while it will be nice if it does. > > For standard commands, it works as it should. For instance, > > tar --file=<TAB> > chmod --reference=<TAB> > dd if=<TAB> > > all work as excpected. For your own custom-commands, it is usually the > best idea to write your own _custom-command completion file for _zsh > where you can specify the options and their arguments (and how the > option arguments can look like, e.g. whether "=" is acceptable > as an option-argument separator) in detail. > > For instance, gentoo-zsh-completion does this for most commands of > gentoo projects, others like eix bring their own completion files. > If you don't, you do not get completion for options but only the > "generic" completion of filenames (in which case "=" has no magic > meaning, of course).
I do not want to write completion for every command out there. > >> There is magic_equal_subst option which enables that but also cause >> harm when using = in other places such as: > > That's exactly the purpose of magic_equal_subst: > To support it for *all* arguments everywhere. no, it also has side unwanted side effects that have nothing to do with completion. I gave the example of: echo xxx==cat I did not press tab and it completes... > Usually there is no point to specify this globally. yes there is, most commands that have no specific completion will enjoy --xxx=<TAB> to complete a file name. > You can of course set it locally in a specific completion function, > in which you want it (although other completion helper functions > like _arguments are usually sufficient to treat "=" correctly). how? can you give an example? >> Is there any sequence to enable completion after space without >> effecting the entire interpreter? > > After "space"? I suppose the question you meant is answered above. I was confused, after '=', and I am afraid I do not have an answer. Thanks for your answer! Alon
