On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not able to sort completions for some weird reason. No matter > what I order I insert stuff into COMPREPLY, bash seems to auto-sort > them lexically. I tried to pass --sort='-committerdate' to git > for-each-ref so I can get a sensible 'git checkout <TAB>' reply, and > I'm very annoyed that it doesn't work. > > I thought it was bash's complete builtin doing the implicit sorting, > so I read the manual with no success. Is readline doing it? If so, > why am I not getting the ordering even in zsh (which doesn't use > readline)? > > What am I missing? AFAIK bash needs the completions sorted, so we added some | sort | uniq. I suppose zsh doesn't need that, but have you tried by calling compadd directly? -- Felipe Contreras -- 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