On 17 Jan 22:32, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 22:03, Uwe Werler <[email protected]> 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
