Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
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> +conf_dir=( $HOME/.newsbeuter /usr/share/doc/newsbeuter/examples )
[...]

I don't like '/usr/share/doc/newsbeuter/examples' either.

What happens if I installed newbeuter from a .deb, which keeps its
examples there, but I also installed a SVN snapshot in, which keeps
its examples in '/usr/local/share/doc/newsbeuter/examples', with
potentially incompatible configuration files... (you know, development
versions...).

zsh doesn't know which version I'm running; Therefore, it can only
guess for the right place for examples in such a directory.

Also, is newsbeuter able to deal with gzipped config files at all?
If not, it's pointless anyway (unless you do some smart =(...) magic
in your completion, when it finds .gz), if the examples are gzipped
by default.

What is the point in completing these at all?

I would probably just use plain the _files completion for config files
anyway, and *maybe* look into ~/.newbeuter as well, if you must.

Regards, Frank

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