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Zsh autocompletes package names only after repository name
In zsh, aura auto-completion for aura -S only works with on a per-repository level.
When I type in aura -S and press Tab, it only shows repositories. Furthermore, If I narrow it down to aura -S lib32 and press Tab, it won't show anything, despite the fact there's a huge amount of packages in multilib/ repository named like lib32-*.
It doesn't make any sense to disable autocomplete by package names, because after all you are able to install them without a repository/ prefix: aura -S lib32-gcc-libs (btw, despite its name, this one is from core/).
Expected behavior
Autocomplete both repositories and individual packages on a top level (aura -S abc<Tab>). Possibly, group repos and packages into separate autocompletion categories (to the best of my knowledge, it is possible, e.g. in docker).
Actual behavior
Autocompletion for package names is not provided, or provided only with "repository/" prefix.
Alternatives
Consider suggestions from pacaur:
% pacaur -S lib32-<Tab>
zsh: do you wish to see all 754 possibilities (378 lines)?
<Tab anyway>
% pacaur -S lib32-86box-nightly-bin
>lib32-86box-nightly-bin< lib32-libpaper
lib32-a52dec lib32-libpciaccess-git
lib32-allegro lib32-libplacebo
lib32-allegro4 lib32-libplacebo-git
lib32-alsaequal lib32-libpng14
lib32-alure lib32-libpng15
lib32-amdgpu-pro-libgl lib32-libprotobuf
lib32-amdvlk-git lib32-libprotobuf-git
...
Scrolling active: current selection at Top
Fun fact: aura -Qi autocompletes packages with both empty search term, and with package name's starting letters.
That would actually help quite a lot. I use Fish, so would have to do a lot of background work to fix the zsh completions myself.