How should I use argcomplete in zsh?

Question

I'm using argcomplete to have Tab completion in Bash.

argcomplete offers global completion for bash, but doesn't for zsh.

I would like to create a file ~/.zsh_completion, to contain the to be completed files. This file should generate autocompletion for those files when it's sourced from ~/.zshrc.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

Alright there is a way to do it, but it's not the way I really wanted it to be.

Anyway, here goes:

1. Install argcomplete:

   $ pip install argcomplete
   

2. Activate argcompolete:

   $ activate-global-python-argcomplete --user
   

3. Add this to ~/.zshrc:

   autoload bashcompinit
   bashcompinit
   source ~/.bash_completion.d/python-argcomplete.sh
   
   eval "$(register-python-argcomplete /path/to/the/to/be/completed/file1)"
   eval "$(register-python-argcomplete /path/to/the/to/be/completed/file2)"
   eval "$(register-python-argcomplete /path/to/the/to/be/completed/file3)"
   

   There's probably a solution to read out the to be completed files from another file, but I don't know how to do that.