[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#786881: Bug#786881: zsh: reusability of bash-completion scripts

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> In Debian, bash seems to have more package coverage for completion.

Yes, but it's not a full superset. IIRC there are tools which have a
zsh completion but no bash-completion. (Although it's vice versa in
most cases.)

> The bash-completion package has support for a good number of such
> scripts.

Yes, but there are also quite some tools which have better zsh than
bash completion.

So we would need a way to check if there's a zsh completion and only
fall back to the bash completion if no zsh completion is available.

Not sure if bashcompinit already provides such a feature or if it
replaces all of compinit with its bashy variant. At least the
documentation doesn't really say in 5.0.7:

  The function bashcompinit provides compatibility with bash's
  programmable completion system. When run it will define the
  functions, compgen and complete which correspond to the bash
  builtins with the same names. It will then be possible to use
  completion specifications and functions written for bash.

		Regards, Axel
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