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Help cleanup Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands. More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break, builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced, function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd, pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type, ulimit, umask, and while.
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\section complete complete - edit command specific tab-completions
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\subsection complete-synopsis Synopsis
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<tt>complete (-c|--command|-p|--path) COMMAND [(-s|--short-option) SHORT_OPTION] [(-l|--long-option|-o|--old-option) LONG_OPTION [(-a||--arguments) OPTION_ARGUMENTS] [(-w|--wraps) WRAPPED_COMMAND] [(-d|--description) DESCRIPTION] </tt>
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\subsection complete-description Description
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For an introduction to specifying completions, see <a
href='index.html#completion-own'>Writing your own completions</a> in
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the fish manual.
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- <tt>COMMAND</tt> is the name of the command for which to add a completion
- <tt>SHORT_OPTION</tt> is a one character option for the command
- <tt>LONG_OPTION</tt> is a multi character option for the command
- <tt>OPTION_ARGUMENTS</tt> is parameter containing a space-separated list of possible option-arguments, which may contain subshells
- <tt>DESCRIPTION</tt> is a description of what the option and/or option arguments do
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- <tt>-C STRING</tt> or <tt>--do-complete=STRING</tt> makes complete try to find all possible completions for the specified string
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- <tt>-e</tt> or <tt>--erase</tt> implies that the specified completion should be deleted
- <tt>-f</tt> or <tt>--no-files</tt> specifies that the option specified by this completion may not be followed by a filename
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- <tt>-n</tt> or <tt>--condition</tt> specifies a shell command that must return 0 if the completion is to be used. This makes it possible to specify completions that should only be used in some cases.
- <tt>-o</tt> or <tt>--old-option</tt> implies that the command uses old long style options with only one dash
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- <tt>-p</tt> or <tt>--path</tt> implies that the string COMMAND is the full path of the command
- <tt>-r</tt> or <tt>--require-parameter</tt> specifies that the option specified by this completion always must have an option argument, i.e. may not be followed by another option
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- <tt>-u</tt> or <tt>--unauthoritative</tt> implies that there may be more options than the ones specified, and that fish should not assume that options not listed are spelling errors
- <tt>-A</tt> or <tt>--authoritative</tt> implies that there may be no more options than the ones specified, and that fish should assume that options not listed are spelling errors
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- <tt>-x</tt> or <tt>--exclusive</tt> implies both <tt>-r</tt> and <tt>-f</tt>
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- <tt>-w WRAPPED_COMMAND</tt> or <tt>--wraps=WRAPPED_COMMAND</tt> causes the specified command to inherit completions from the wrapped comamnd.
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Command specific tab-completions in \c fish are based on the notion
of options and arguments. An option is a parameter which begins with a
hyphen, such as '-h', '-help' or '--help'. Arguments are parameters
that do not begin with a hyphen. Fish recognizes three styles of
options, the same styles as the GNU version of the getopt
library. These styles are:
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- Short options, like '-a'. Short options are a single character long, are preceded by a single hyphen and may be grouped together (like '-la', which is equivalent to '-l -a'). Option arguments may be specified in the following parameter ('-w 32') or by appending the option with the value ('-w32').
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- Old style long options, like '-Wall'. Old style long options can be more than one character long, are preceded by a single hyphen and may not be grouped together. Option arguments are specified in the following parameter ('-ao null').
- GNU style long options, like '--colors'. GNU style long options can be more than one character long, are preceded by two hyphens, and may not be grouped together. Option arguments may be specified in the following parameter ('--quoting-style shell') or by appending the option with a '=' and the value ('--quoting-style=shell'). GNU style long options may be abbreviated so long as the abbreviation is unique ('--h' is equivalent to '--help' if help is the only long option beginning with an 'h').
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The options for specifying command name, command path, or command
switches may all be used multiple times to specify multiple commands
which have the same completion or multiple switches accepted by a
command.
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Support for command wrapping ("aliases") Add the --wraps option to 'complete' and 'function'. This allows a command to (recursively) inherit the completions of a wrapped command. Fixes #393. When evaluating a completion, we inspect the entire "wrap chain" for a command, i.e. we follow the sequence of wrapping until we either hit a loop (which we silently ignore) or the end of the chain. We then evaluate completions as if the wrapping command were substituted with the wrapped command. Currently this only works for commands, i.e. 'complete --command gco --wraps git\ checkout' won't work (that would seem to encroaching on abbreviations anyways). It might be useful to show an error message for that case. The commandline builtin reflects the commandline with the wrapped command substituted in, so e.g. git completions (which inspect the command line) will just work. This sort of command line munging is also performed by 'complete -C' so it's not totally without precedent. 'alias will also now mark its generated function as wrapping the 'target.
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The \c -w or \c --wraps options causes the specified command to inherit
completions from another command. The inheriting command is said to
"wrap" the inherited command. The wrapping command may have its own
completions in addition to inherited ones. A command may wrap multiple
commands, and wrapping is transitive: if A wraps B, and B wraps C,
then A automatically inherits all of C's completions. Wrapping can
be removed using the \c -e or \c --erase options.
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When erasing completions, it is possible to either erase all
completions for a specific command by specifying <tt>complete -e -c
COMMAND</tt>, or by specifying a specific completion option to delete
by specifying either a long, short or old style option.
\subsection complete-example Example
The short style option <tt>-o</tt> for the \c gcc command requires
that a file follows it. This can be done using writing <tt>complete
-c gcc -s o -r</tt>.
The short style option <tt>-d</tt> for the \c grep command requires
that one of the strings 'read', 'skip' or 'recurse' is used. This can
be specified writing <tt>complete -c grep -s d -x -a "read skip
recurse"</tt>.
The \c su command takes any username as an argument. Usernames are
given as the first colon-separated field in the file /etc/passwd. This
can be specified as: <tt>complete -x -c su -d "Username" -a "(cat
/etc/passwd|cut -d : -f 1)" </tt>.
The \c rpm command has several different modes. If the \c -e or \c
--erase flag has been specified, \c rpm should delete one or more
packages, in which case several switches related to deleting packages
are valid, like the \c nodeps switch.
This can be written as:
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<tt>complete -c rpm -n "__fish_contains_opt -s e erase" -l nodeps -d
"Don't check dependencies"</tt>
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where \c __fish_contains_opt is a function that checks the commandline
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buffer for the presence of a specified set of options.
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Support for command wrapping ("aliases") Add the --wraps option to 'complete' and 'function'. This allows a command to (recursively) inherit the completions of a wrapped command. Fixes #393. When evaluating a completion, we inspect the entire "wrap chain" for a command, i.e. we follow the sequence of wrapping until we either hit a loop (which we silently ignore) or the end of the chain. We then evaluate completions as if the wrapping command were substituted with the wrapped command. Currently this only works for commands, i.e. 'complete --command gco --wraps git\ checkout' won't work (that would seem to encroaching on abbreviations anyways). It might be useful to show an error message for that case. The commandline builtin reflects the commandline with the wrapped command substituted in, so e.g. git completions (which inspect the command line) will just work. This sort of command line munging is also performed by 'complete -C' so it's not totally without precedent. 'alias will also now mark its generated function as wrapping the 'target.
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To implement an alias, use the \c -w or \c --wraps option:
<tt>complete -c hub -w git</tt>
Now hub inherits all of the completions from git. Note this can
also be specified in a function declaration.
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