From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 14:53:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D8716A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2064843D1F for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i4PLr4gO025774 for ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 May 2004 16:53:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:53:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-ports Message-ID: <20040525215303.GA15800@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040519211203.GA3221@watt.intra.caraldi.com> <87hduc2jxw.fsf@strauser.com> <20040524095503.GC21622@anyware12.anyware> <20040524110031.GI58817@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040524110031.GI58817@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Bash Completion is missing its plug-ins X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:53:06 -0000 In the last episode (May 24), Olivier Tharan said: > * Jean-Baptiste Quenot (20040524 11:55): > > About zsh, I have heard that there are a lot of completions > > included, but how does it work? Who maintains the completions > > code? Is it easier to write completions for zsh than bash? > > It is all included in the shell, and the completion code is > maintained by the authors. Note that packages are free to install their own completion scripts into /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions , which is one of the places zsh looks for its completion functions. Portupgrade does this, for example. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com