On Jan 18, 2008 5:00 PM, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2008 11:21 AM, Diggory Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here's a few git completions (probably only a very small set of available > > git > > commands). But after adding them, I noticed that using tab-completion > > on 'git-' (possible since git commands are also available using hard-linked > > binaries 'git-*') not only lists all available commands, but their > > descriptions too (not ones I added) --- where has fish got their > > descriptions > > from? They're not in /usr/share/fish/completions or any other completion > > dir. > > > > Not that it's particularly important, but I'm intrigued and it could provide > > an easy way to add full tab-completion with descriptions. > > > > Fish calls an internal shellscript function called > __fish_describe_command in order to find a description for a command. > Actually, it finds descriptions for all commands beginning with a > specified prefix, so if you call '__fish_describe_command git' you > will get a list of descriptions for all git subcommands. > > What __fish_describe_command actually does is that it uses the apropos > command to search the whatis database (which in turn is generated by > from the manual pages installed in the system). Unfortunatly, the > definition of the __fish_describe_command is a bit of an abomination, > because the actual format of the apropos output varies significantly > between platforms and even between Linux distributions. > > Hope that answers you question, and that you'll be sending us a patch > containing lots of git tab completions soon! >
How _rude_ of me. I forgot to mention: I've added you completions to fish, they'll be included in the next fish release. :) Thanks! Axel > > Axel > > > Diggory > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Fish-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
