Control: retitle -1 zsh: please provide completion for tail Control: severity -1 wishlist
On 2015-03-17 22:48:24, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> > The completion for "tail -f " correctly completes files, but it does not for
> > "tail -F ". "tail -F <tab>" displays "completing -f" and and nothing else.
> > I'd
> > also expect to get "completing files" there.
>
> Zsh does not supply a completion function for tail. Thus, it should fall
> back to file-completion for programs it doesn't know for any better.
>
> You can try this:
>
> % zsh -f
> % autoload -Uz compinit; compinit
> % tail -F <tab>
>
> and try to reproduce the issue with a clean zsh instance with just the
> completion system loaded. You'll see that you can't; because I can't.
>
> My guess is, that you've got a completion handler configured for tail.
>
> Like ‘_gnu_generic’. Try this (from a failing shell of yours):
>
> % print ${_comps[tail]}
>
> and that will most likely print ‘_gnu_generic’.
Indeed, it does:
$ print ${_comps[tail]}
_gnu_generic
> Long story short: This is not a bug in Debian's zsh package. But rather
> in your configuration, since it assumes _gnu_generic can handle the
> --help output of current GNU tail versions. Which it apparently can't.
So let's turn this bug in a "please provide a completion for tail" bug.
Cheers
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Sebastian Ramacher
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