[PATCH] bash/zsh completion: disable defaults and verbose output when completing

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Brodie Rao <dackze at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Brodie Rao <dackze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Brodie Rao <me+hg at dackz.net>
>>> # Date 1243344105 14400
>>> # Node ID 59dc4ad008d904d51ecdc78e1b8ef31ba2b7d8c6
>>> # Parent  13613221caf147c959cb4c5761e41029d9789cc6
>>> bash/zsh completion: disable defaults and verbose output when
>>> completing
>>>
>>> If ui.verbose is set to True in hgrc, commands used to provide
>>> completions
>>> would yield bad results. For example, qpush completion would
>>> include the
>>> patch numbers and statuses as returned by qunapplied -v, instead of
>>> just
>>> the patch names.
>>>
>>> Defaults are also disabled when completing to prevent similar
>>> issues when
>>> an option is set that changes a command's output.
>>
>> Matt has been talking about introducing an option to disable defaults
>> (and/or deprecating defaults altogether). Wouldn't it make more sense
>> to work in that direction?
>
> Well, I wanted to have the changes work with previous versions of hg,
> but an option to disable defaults would be nice.
>
> I looked at an earlier thread about adding a -D option to disable
> defaults, but I think that would be a little cumbersome for scripts
> trying to support versions of hg with and without the option. Maybe an
> environment variable would work better?

-D is already used in qnew/qref.

>
> Also, would it make sense to roll ui.verbose=0 into that option?
>
> Incidentally, I just noticed there's also a tcsh completion script.
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