I'm trying to write a completion method for fsharpi (F# interactive), which has options like the following:
--use:<file> Use the given file on startup as initial input
--debug:{full|pdbonly} Specify debugging type: full, pdbonly. ('full' is the default and enables attaching a debugger to a running program).
--warn:<n> Set a warning level (0-5)
I'm guessing this has to be handled with $state similarly to sub-commands, but the documentation is monolithic and the language isn't very descriptive, so I've gotten nowhere with experimentation and by stitching together different examples.
A solution to this would also work for aspell, which uses an equals-sign instead of the colon e.g.
--conf=<str> main configuration file
This is one of the most common forms of completion, and it can be easily handled by _arguments. Note that literal colons in options can be quoted with a backslash. Here's the code example:
#compdef command
arguments=(
'--use\:-:initial input file:_files'
'--debug\:-:debugging type:(full pbonly)'
'--warn\:-:warning level:(0 1 2 3 4 5)'
)
_arguments -S $arguments[@]
Reference: _arguments in official documentation.