Re: [PATCH] use real compspec hash key for compopt output

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/28/23 2:52 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> The output of `compopt' in a running completion function is a command where
> the last word is usually the command for which the compspec was defined.
>
> However, if the current compspec was found by using the basename of the
> command word, or by invoking default completion, the output will use the
> typed command word, rather than a command for which a compspec has been
> defined.
>
> $ f() { echo; compopt; }
> $ complete -r
> $ complete -F f f
>
> $ f ^I
> compopt +o [...] f
>
> $ /bin/f ^I
> compopt +o [...] /bin/f
>
> In fact, the word printed at the end is the same string that is passed to
> the completion function as $1.  I think it would be useful if the compopt
> output instead used the actual command for the currently running compspec.
> For example, this would allow a completion function to retrieve its
> compspec by running `complete -p' with the last word of the `compopt'
> output.

Thanks, this seems like a useful change.

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