How do I add the listed abbrev as completion items?

[pimvh]

Hi all,

First of all, thanks for providing this tool open source!

This might be slightly out-of-scope for this repo, or an unsupported use-case, if so, let me know.

I was wondering whether anyone is using this is combination with the built-in completion of zsh. 'normal' aliases (I think natively?) already show up and I would like to have zsh-abbr 'aliases' also show up.

I have searched the documentation but have not been able to find an example documenting this.

I am looking for something like the following:

Currently completion of arguments (as well as the loved zsh-autosuggestions in light-gray):

Desired behaviour:

(prompt) ➜ ls -
 -- option --
-1      -- single column output
.
...
<< other arguments >
-- zsh-abbr --
ls     -- long-command-i-created-an-alias-ls-for

I hope my example has been clear, if not, please let me know.

NB: I know using the ls command as an zsh-abbr is probably a dumb idea, it's just for illustration.

[olets]

The alias behavior is new to me. Can you give an example?

[pimvh]

Sure!|

I am using zsh 5.9, and have the following completion function available:

➜ cat _aliases
#compdef unalias

local expl sel args opts

zparseopts -E -D s:=sel

[[ -z $sel ]] && sel=rgs

opts=( "$@" )

args=()
[[ $sel = *r* ]] && args=( $args 'aliases:regular alias:compadd -k aliases' )
[[ $sel = *g* ]] && args=( $args 'global-aliases:global alias:compadd -k galiases' )
[[ $sel = *s* ]] && args=( $args 'suffix-aliases:suffix alias:compadd -k saliases' )
[[ $sel = *R* ]] && args=( $args 'disabled-aliases:disabled regular alias:compadd -k dis_aliases' )
[[ $sel = *G* ]] && args=( $args 'disabled-global-aliases:disabled global alias:compadd -k dis_galiases' )
[[ $sel = *S* ]] && args=( $args 'disabled-suffix-aliases:disabled suffix alias:compadd -k dis_saliases' )

_alternative -O opts $args

I am not sure on the details on how zsh makes this completion available to me, but it eventually ends up in my shell.

If I set my .zshrc to the following (probably also including some statement which load the completion definition):

.zshrc

alias vim=nvim

Then, when I type the following in my prompt, and list native completions:

-> vim

I get the following result:

➜ vim
 -- external command --
vim       vimdiff   vimtutor
 -- alias --
vim

I thus know that it is aliases to something else.

In the same way, it might be useful to list zsh-abbr aliases in the native completion syntax, by providing a completion definition. I do not know how to achieve this, bringing me to my original question.

[olets]

That's neat, and new to me. If you find a solution please share it!