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Added extra notes about _arguments

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Joe Bloggs 2014-07-10 20:00:41 +01:00
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@ -194,10 +194,11 @@ this will complete the items in $userdirs, aswell as a comma separated list cont
As with _describe, the _alternative function can itself be used in an ACTION as part of a specification for _arguments
or _regex_arguments.
** Writing completion functions using _arguments
With the _arguments function you can create more sophisticated completion functions.
With the _arguments function you can create more sophisticated completion functions for handling both options and arguments.
Like the _alternative function, _arguments takes a list of specification strings as arguments.
These specification strings can be for specifying options and any corresponding option arguments (e.g. -f filename),
or command arguments.
or command arguments. When listing completions command arguments will be shown, unless there is a hyphen on the command line
in which case options will be listed.
Basic option specifications take the form '-OPT[DESCRIPTION]', e.g. like this:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh