Howto: copying completions does not work

[jtyers]

The howto copying completions section states you can copy a completion from one command to another using:

compdef cmd1=cmd2

This doesn't appear to work. In my case I have an alias md:

❯ alias md
md='m env=dev'

Given a makefile which works with normal completion via make:

❯ make [TAB]
[make target]
PHONY
clean
dist
[--snip--]

I would expect the same behaviour for md, but it doesn't suggest make targets, only files, as if no completion had been defined for it. I'm running compdef md=make.

[syohex]

I cannot reproduce your issue.

I suppose you don't need to define compdef because zsh completion works against aliases. How about defining alias like alias md='make env=dev' ?

[jtyers]

Ah, that's true. It'll be causing an issue in my case because I have a wrapper function for make, so zsh is not seeing it as an invocation to make any more

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, 07:59 Shohei YOSHIDA, @.***> wrote:

I cannot reproduce your issue.

I suppose you don't need to define compdef because zsh completion works against aliases. How about defining alias like alias md='make env=dev' ?

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