ZSH completion from script prompt (like BASH's read -e)

Question

In a bash shell script you can prompt the user for input and enable readline completion for the user with the -e flag. (e.g. read -e -p 'GET YOUR FILE: ' file would allow a the user to use tab-completion to find the file.)

ZSH's completion is more advanced and extendable, so I hoped that I might be able to find a zsh builtin that allowed similar behavior.

Are you asking for something that works in `zsh` or in `bash`? — chepner, Feb 13 '13 at 19:42

chepner · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-13T21:02:03.327

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I'm sure there's a better answer (I just recently started experimenting with zsh), but you can use vared.

$ vared -c line

edited Feb 13 '13 at 21:02

answered Feb 13 '13 at 19:50

chepner

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Works great, the first line isn't needed though if you pass the `-c` flag. – brent Feb 13 '13 at 21:00

ZSH completion from script prompt (like BASH's read -e)

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