Re: [QUERY] How do you sort completions?

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: May 24, 2013, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20130524161243.GB2104@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0k=nVHOBe5SgRH9xQK1+yAYBzbNMqsWxhYPo0MTZPp63g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:03:27PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> I'm not able to sort completions for some weird reason.  No matter
> what I order I insert stuff into COMPREPLY, bash seems to auto-sort
> them lexically.  I tried to pass --sort='-committerdate' to git
> for-each-ref so I can get a sensible 'git checkout <TAB>' reply, and
> I'm very annoyed that it doesn't work.
> 
> I thought it was bash's complete builtin doing the implicit sorting,
> so I read the manual with no success.  Is readline doing it?  If so,
> why am I not getting the ordering even in zsh (which doesn't use
> readline)?

The order of elements in COMPREPLY doesn't matter, it will be sorted anyway:

$ _foo () { COMPREPLY=("foo" "bar" "baz") ; } $ complete -F _foo foo $ foo <TAB> bar baz foo

I don't know who does the sorting (Bash or readline), and I don't know any way to disable it.

Gábor