Re: Question. Autocomplete paths starting with %.

[Clark J. Wang]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, dpc@ucore.info <dpc@ucore.info> wrote:

>
> I can script in Bash quite well, but I've never did anything that
> fancy with completion and I don't know how to plug my function to
> handle this. I understand that I should register something (function
> named like _bookmarkcomp) to handle filename completion for things
> beginning with %.
>
> If you help me with this one I promise to post my solution for benefit
> of other bash users.
>
> Regards,
> Dawid
> --
> http://dpc.ucore.info
>
>
I can give you an example here:

bash# vi compgen-example.sh
_compgen_foo()
{
    local cmd=$1 cur=$2 pre=$3

    if [[ $cur = % ]]; then
        COMPREPLY[0]='it-works'
    fi
}

complete -F _compgen_foo foo
bash# source compgen-example.sh
bash# foo %<TAB>    <-- Press TAB here
bash# foo it-works    <-- `%' will be expanded like this

-- 
Clark J. Wang