On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The current tcsh-completion support for Git, as can be found on the >> Internet, takes the approach of defining the possible completions >> explicitly. This has the obvious draw-back to require constant >> updating as the Git code base evolves. >> >> The approach taken by this commit is to to re-use the advanced bash >> completion script and use its result for tcsh completion. This is >> achieved by executing (versus sourcing) the bash script and >> outputting the completion result for tcsh consumption. >> >> Three solutions were looked at to implement this approach with (A) >> being retained: >> >> A) Modifications: >> git-completion.bash and new git-completion.tcsh > > As I said, I don't think this is needed. It can be done in a single > stand-alone script without modifications to git-completion.bash. > > This works: Thank you for taking the time to try things out. What you suggest below is an improvement on solution (C). I had chosen (A) instead because (C) creates a third script which gets generated each time a new shell is started. It should be safe, but it felt a little wrong. But I have to admit I was on the fence between the two solutions. If you guys don't think it is bad to generate a third script (that the user may notice in his ${HOME}), I'll post a new patch (and try once more to get gmail not to replace the tabs with spaces), using your improved solution (C). > set called = ($_) I fought with this a lot before posting to the list. It seems that $_ is not set when a double sourcing happens. Testing the solution as an actual user showed me that when I start a new shell it sources ~/.tcshrc, which then sources ~/.git-completion.tcsh and then $_ is empty for some reason. I couldn't find another way to figure out where the script is located, which is why I had to force the user to use ${HOME} for everything. > set script = "${called[2]}.tmp" > > cat <<\EOF > $script > source "$HOME/.git-completion.sh" This is nice. Shame on me not to have thought about it. In my version I actually 'cat' the entire bash script into $script instead of simply sourcing it. > # Set COMP_WORDS in a way that can be handled by the bash script. > COMP_WORDS=($1) > > # Set COMP_CWORD to the cursor location as bash would. > if [ -n "${2-}" ]; then > COMP_CWORD=$2 > else Since this code will be part of a tcsh-only script, I don't think we need to prepare for a possible $2. tcsh won't provide it. So, I'll remove that logic, which will simplify things slightly. > # Assume the cursor is at the end of parameter #1. > # We must check for a space as the last character which will > # tell us that the previous word is complete and the cursor > # is on the next word. > if [ "${1: -1}" == " " ]; then > # The last character is a space, so our location is at the end > # of the command-line array > COMP_CWORD=${#COMP_WORDS[@]} > else > # The last character is not a space, so our location is on the > # last word of the command-line array, so we must decrement the > # count by 1 > COMP_CWORD=$((${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1)) > fi > fi > > # Call _git() or _gitk() of the bash script, based on the first > # element of the command-line > _${COMP_WORDS[0]} > > IFS=$'\n' > echo "${COMPREPLY[*]}" > \EOF > > complete git 'p/*/`bash ${script} "${COMMAND_LINE}" | sort | uniq`/' > complete gitk 'p/*/`bash ${script} "${COMMAND_LINE}" | sort | uniq`/' I am worried about 'sort' and 'uniq' being aliased by the user, so I was thinking of using '\sort | \uniq' I'll work on the new version of the solution. Thanks again Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html