zsh/Completion/Core/_multi_parts

#autoload

# This gets two arguments, a separator (which should be only one
# character) and an array. As usual, the array may be given by it's
# name or literal as in `(foo bar baz)' (words separated by spaces in
# parentheses).
# The parts of words from the array that are separated by the
# separator character are then completed independently.

local sep matches patstr orig matchflags pref i tmp1 tmp2 nm
local group expl

_match_test _multi_parts || return 1

# Save the current number of matches to be able to return if we added
# matches or not.

nm=$compstate[nmatches]

# Get the options.

group=()
expl=()
while getopts "J:V:X:" opt; do
  case "$opt" in
  [JV]) group=("-$opt" "$OPTARG");;
  X)    expl=(-X "$OPTARG");;
  esac
done
shift OPTIND-1

# Get the arguments, first the separator, then the array. The array is 
# stored in `matches'. Further on this array will always contain those 
# words from the original array that still match everything we have
# tried to match while we walk through the string from the line.

sep="$1"
if [[ "${2[1]}" = '(' ]]; then
  matches=( ${2[2,-2]} )
else
  matches=( "${(@P)2}" )
fi

# Now build the pattern from what we have on the line. We also save
# the original string in `orig'. The `eval' is used to replace our
# separator character by `*<sep>'.

if [[ -o globcomplete ]]; then
  patstr="${PREFIX}*${SUFFIX}*"
else
  patstr="${PREFIX:q}*${SUFFIX:q}*"
fi
orig="${PREFIX}${SUFFIX}"

matchflags=""
_match_pattern _path_files patstr matchflags
[[ -n "$_comp_correct" ]] && matchflags="$matchflags(#a$_comp_correct)"

patstr="${${patstr//$sep/*$sep}//\*##/*}"
#eval patstr\="\$patstr:gs-${sep}-\*${sep}-:gs/\*\*/\*/"

# First we will skip over those parts of the matches for which we have 
# exact substrings on the line. In `pref' we will build the
# unambiguous prefix string.

pref=''
while [[ "$orig" = *${sep}* ]] do

  # First build the pattern to use, then collect all strings from
  # `matches' that match the prefix we have and the exact substring in 
  # the array `tmp1'.

  pat="${${${patstr#*${sep}}%${sep}*}//\*/[^${sep}]#}${patstr##*${sep}}"
  tmp1=( "${(@M)matches:#${~matchflags}${orig%%${sep}*}${sep}${~pat}}" )

  # If there are no words matching the exact substring, stop.

  (( $#tmp1 )) || break

  # Otherwise add the part to the prefix, remove it from the matches
  # (which will also remove all words not matching the string at all), 
  # and set `patstr' and `orig' to the next component.

  pref="$pref${orig%%${sep}*}${sep}"
  matches=( "${(@)${(@)matches#${orig%%${sep}*}${sep}}:#}" )
  orig="${orig#*${sep}}"
  patstr="${patstr#*${sep}}"
done

# Now we get all the words that still match in `tmp1'.

if [[ "$patstr" = *${sep}* ]]; then
  tmp1="${patstr%${sep}*}${sep}"
  pat="${tmp1//\*/[^${sep}]#}${patstr##*${sep}}"
else
  pat="$patstr"
fi
tmp1=( "${(@M)matches:#${~matchflags}${~pat}}" )

if (( $#tmp1 )); then

  # There are words that are matched, put them int `matches' and then
  # move all unambiguous components from the beginning into `pref'.

  matches=( "$tmp1[@]" )
  while [[ "$matches[1]" = *${sep}* ]]; do

    # We just take the first component of the first match and see if
    # there are other matches with a different prefix (these are
    # collected in `tmp2'). If there are any, we give up.

    tmp1="${matches[1]%%${sep}*}${sep}"
    tmp2=( "${(@)matches:#${tmp1}*}" )
    (( $#tmp2 )) && break

    # All matches have the same prefix, but it into `pref' and remove
    # it from the matches.

    pref="$pref$tmp1"
    matches=( "${(@)${(@)matches#$tmp1}:#}" )

    if [[ "$orig" = *${sep}* ]]; then
      orig="${orig#*${sep}}"
    else
      orig=''
    fi
  done

  # Now we can tell the completion code about the things we
  # found. Strings that have a separator will be added with a suffix.

  if [[ -z "$orig" && "$PREFIX$SUFFIX" != "$pref$orig" ]]; then
    compadd -QU  "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -i "$IPREFIX" -S '' - "${pref}${orig}"
  elif [[ $compstate[insert] = *menu ]]; then
    for i in "$matches[@]" ; do
      if [[ "$i" = *${sep}* ]]; then
        compadd -U "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -i "$IPREFIX" \
	        -p "$pref" -qS "$sep" - "${i%%${sep}*}"
      else
        compadd -U "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -i "$IPREFIX" \
	        -p "$pref" - "${i%%${sep}*}"
      fi
    done
  else
    for i in "$matches[@]" ; do
      if [[ "$i" = *${sep}* ]]; then
        compadd -U -i "$IPREFIX" -p "$pref" -s "${sep}${i#*${sep}}" \
	        "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -M "r:|${sep}=*" - "${i%%${sep}*}"
      else
        compadd -U "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -i "$IPREFIX" -p "$pref" - "$i"
      fi
    done
  fi
elif [[ "$patstr" = *${sep}* ]]; then

  # We had no words matching the string from the line. But we want to
  # be friendly and at least expand the prefix as far as we can. So we 
  # will loop through the rest of the string from the line and test
  # the components one by one.

  while [[ "$patstr" = *${sep}* ]]; do

    # First we get all words matching at least this component in
    # `tmp1'. If there are none, we give up.

    tmp1=( "${(@M)matches:#${~matchflags}${~patstr%%${sep}*}${sep}*}" )
    (( $#tmp1 )) || break

    # Then we check if there are words that have a different prefix.

    tmp2=( "${(@)tmp1:#${tmp1[1]%%${sep}*}${sep}*}" )
    if (( $#tmp2 )); then

      # There are words with another prefix, so we have found an
      # ambiguous component. So we just give all possible prefixes to
      # the completion code together with our prefix and the rest of
      # the string from the line as the suffix.

      compadd -U "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -S '' -i "$IPREFIX" -p "$pref" \
              -s "${sep}${orig#*${sep}}" - "${(@)matches%%${sep}*}"
      return 0
    fi

    # All words have the same prefix, so add it to `pref' again and
    # try the next component.

    pref="$pref${tmp1[1]%%${sep}*}${sep}"
    matches=( "${(@)matches#${tmp1[1]%%${sep}*}${sep}}" )
    orig="${orig#*${sep}}"
    patstr="${patstr#*${sep}}"
  done

  # Finally, add the unambiguous prefix and the rest of the string
  # from the line.

  compadd -U "$group[@]" "$expl[@]" -S '' -i "$IPREFIX" -p "$pref" - "$orig"
fi

# This sets the return value to indicate that we added matches (or not).

[[ nm -ne compstate[nmatches] ]]