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dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

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[SOLVED] zsh kill completion zstyle question

I really like the kill autocomplete functionality of zsh. I was wondering is there any way of using this with other programs that require pids. I wanted to use it with cpulimit. I saw this:

zstyle ':completion:*:*:kill:*' menu yes select
zstyle ':completion:*:kill:*' force-list always

and was hoping I could do something like

cpulimit -p <tab>

and get the same results of

kill <tab>

I have been trying different combinations but I do not understand the syntax above at all. It is only my second day of zsh so I still kind of suck. Just curious if this is possible or if this function is reserved for kill only.

Edit: Figured it out. If anyone comes across this add this to your .zshrc:

compdef _pids cpulimit

Where "cpulimit" is the command you want pid autocompletion on.

Last edited by dodo3773 (2011-06-20 03:12:44)