Is there a way to get tab-completions for this?

[NireBryce]

I can't tell if I'm missing something or it's impossible at the moment, but I can't find a way to hook this into completions.

I know it takes a lot of work, so I'm not asking for it to be added, just asking if there's a way to do it that's pre-existing.

thanks!

[olets]

Short answer: no :)

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If you mean completion for abbr commands (like abbr exp[TAB]), contributions are welcome.

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If you mean abbreviation completion, like abbr helloworld="echo hello world"; hellow[TAB] , I expect there's a solution that leverages zsh's alias completion or its function completion. You'd have something like

completion-for-abbr() {
  local abbreviation

  for abbreviation in $(abbr list-abbreviations); do
    alias $abbreviation=$abbreviation
  end
}

completion-for-abbr

or

completion-for-abbr() {
  local abbreviation

  for abbreviation in $(abbr list-abbreviations); do
    $abbreviation() {}
  end
}

completion-for-abbr

in your .zshrc below the line where zsh-abbr is added.

If it's possible, it would take finessing. Otherwise (and if you simply paste that code into your .zshrc), you'll get completion but you'll end up with the abbrevation and the expansion:

% abbr myexample="echo my example"
% alias myexample=myexample
% myexam[Trigger completion, select `myexample`][SPACE] # % myexam echo my example

[NireBryce]

alright, I'll tinker with this and if I find a better way I'll get back to you. Thanks!

I meant the abbreviations, but if I'm already dealing with this I'll see if I can add completions to abbr itself. it's probably good as a warm up anyway.

my hands are full for the month but I'll add it to the stack.

[olets]

• Right after my first comment I decided to add command completions. That's released now, in v5.2.0! Sorry to take what could have been your contribution. PR command completion [for #104] #103 has the work, if you're interested.