Re: [QUERY] How do you sort completions?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2013, 13:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3_BBPu0WSzYyaVLbdg0dBuaV7MFgy1SMuK1C8P2vKbYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> 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)?
>
> What am I missing?

AFAIK bash needs the completions sorted, so we added some | sort | uniq. I suppose zsh doesn't need that, but have you tried by calling compadd directly?

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Felipe Contreras