From f90992ec3170a70a65d11ed9fd2aa4c6baaec3eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:16:39 +0000
Subject: allow _value:<assoc> functions to override completion for all keys of
 an assoc (3337)

---
 Completion/Base/_value | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Completion/Base/_value')

diff --git a/Completion/Base/_value b/Completion/Base/_value
index 402bab236..15218eb60 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/_value
+++ b/Completion/Base/_value
@@ -2,10 +2,16 @@
 
 _value () {
   # You can customize completion for different parameters by writing a
-  # function `_value:<name>'.
+  # function `_value:<name>', where <name> is the name of the parameter.
+  # When completing values of elements of associative arrays, we first
+  # search for a function `_value:<assoc>-<key>' and then for 
+  # `_value:<assoc>', so it's simple to define different functions
+  # for different keys or one function for a whole association.
 
   if (( $+functions[_value:$compstate[parameter]] )); then
     "_value:$compstate[parameter]" "$@"
+  elif (( $+functions[_value:${compstate[parameter]%%-*}] )); then
+    "_value:${compstate[parameter]%%-*}" "$@"
   elif [[ "$compstate[parameter]" != *-* &&
           "${(Pt)${compstate[parameter]}}" = assoc* ]]; then
     if (( CURRENT & 1 )); then
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