complete all "cvs add" matches

complete all "cvs add" matches

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

Hi,

Let's say I have 3 files in a cvs repository that I want to "cvs add",
so I type:

% cvs add <TAB>

Since I have activated cvs completion, zsh offers to "add" only these 3
files, which appear under my command line.

How can I get these 3 file names on the command line? Right now I press
<TAB> again to insert the first match and have to "cvs add" once for
each file.

I have looked in zsh-doc (debian unstable) section 17.6.5 without
finding the magic key combination that would _all_ desired completion
matches on the command line.

Cheers,

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Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Oliver Kiddle]

On 21 Oct, you wrote:
> 
> Let's say I have 3 files in a cvs repository that I want to "cvs add",
> so I type:
> 
> % cvs add <TAB>
> 
> Since I have activated cvs completion, zsh offers to "add" only these 3
> files, which appear under my command line.
> 
> How can I get these 3 file names on the command line? Right now I press
> <TAB> again to insert the first match and have to "cvs add" once for
> each file.

This can be done by adding
  compstate[insert]=all
to the end of _cvs_add. I'm not keen on doing this in the distributed
_cvs but you could use your own replacement _cvs_add function.

I don't remember there being a style to do this, perhaps there should
be one.

You might also want to have a look at the _all_matches completer. Don't
be tempted to try to bind the _all_matches completer to the specific
context of cvs-add with zstyle though because completers are determined
long before the context is elaborated to that level of detail and it
won't work. Personally, I bind a key to it which I can use in situations
such as this. The necessary lines from my .zshrc being these:

bindkey '^Xx' all-matches
zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer _all_matches _complete
zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' old-matches true
zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' insert true
zle -C all-matches complete-word _generic

Oliver


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Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:27:38PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> On 21 Oct, you wrote:
> > 
> > Let's say I have 3 files in a cvs repository that I want to "cvs add",
> > so I type:
> > 
> > % cvs add <TAB>
> > 
> > Since I have activated cvs completion, zsh offers to "add" only these 3
> > files, which appear under my command line.
> > 
> > How can I get these 3 file names on the command line? Right now I press
> > <TAB> again to insert the first match and have to "cvs add" once for
> > each file.
> 
> This can be done by adding
>   compstate[insert]=all
> to the end of _cvs_add. I'm not keen on doing this in the distributed
> _cvs but you could use your own replacement _cvs_add function.
> 
> I don't remember there being a style to do this, perhaps there should
> be one.
> 
> You might also want to have a look at the _all_matches completer. Don't
> be tempted to try to bind the _all_matches completer to the specific
> context of cvs-add with zstyle though because completers are determined
> long before the context is elaborated to that level of detail and it
> won't work. Personally, I bind a key to it which I can use in situations
> such as this. The necessary lines from my .zshrc being these:
> 
> bindkey '^Xx' all-matches
> zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer _all_matches _complete
> zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' old-matches true
> zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' insert true
> zle -C all-matches complete-word _generic

This works beautifully, thanks a lot!

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Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Bart Schaefer]

I tried to reply to this, but apartia.org rejected my message because I'm
using a Verizon DSL account ("too much spam from verizon already").

I dislike spam as much as the next person, but I have zero sympathy for
the "collateral damage" crowd.  If you don't want my mail, you don't get
my help.

Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Roman Neuhauser]

# schaefer@brasslantern.com / 2002-10-21 15:00:13 +0000:
> I tried to reply to this, but apartia.org rejected my message because I'm
> using a Verizon DSL account ("too much spam from verizon already").
> 
> I dislike spam as much as the next person, but I have zero sympathy for
> the "collateral damage" crowd.  If you don't want my mail, you don't get
> my help.

    I wanted to ask the same question as the OP for a couple of weeks,
    and don't block the whole Verizon. will you post so that *i* can
    read it?

    :)

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Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Bart Schaefer]

On Oct 21,  5:04pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
} Subject: Re: complete all "cvs add" matches
}
}     I wanted to ask the same question as the OP for a couple of weeks,
}     and don't block the whole Verizon. will you post so that *i* can
}     read it?

Fortunately Oliver has saved me the trouble; I don't have anything to add
to what he posted, except to point to the similar example in the doc for
_all_matches.

Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[John Buttery]

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* Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> [2002-10-21 15:00:13 +0000]:
> I tried to reply to this, but apartia.org rejected my message because I'm
> using a Verizon DSL account ("too much spam from verizon already").
> 
> I dislike spam as much as the next person, but I have zero sympathy for
> the "collateral damage" crowd.  If you don't want my mail, you don't get
> my help.

  Well, not to go too far off-topic, but I don't think the "collateral
damage" people really like it either...but when you have to upgrade your
SMTP infrastructure just to deal with spam, it starts to focus your
attention a little.
  This isn't a flame, even though it probably sounds like one, but I'll
tell you what _I_ dislike; people who continue to pay known
spam-friendly ISPs for Internet access and then imply that it's the
other end's problem when their mail is blocked. 

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Off-topic not really Re: complete all "cvs add" matches

[Bart Schaefer]

On Oct 21,  9:34pm, John Buttery wrote:
}
}   This isn't a flame, even though it probably sounds like one, but I'll
} tell you what _I_ dislike; people who continue to pay known
} spam-friendly ISPs for Internet access and then imply that it's the
} other end's problem when their mail is blocked. 

Just for the record, and then I'll shut up since this is off-topic and I
see enough of this sort of argument on the spamassassin list already ...

(1) If there were another broadband ISP in my area, I'd have used it.
    Unfortunately verizon effectively has a monopoly here because they
    bought the local phone company, the only other DSL provider went
    bankrupt, and my neighborhood does not have line-of-sight to any
    wireless towers.

(2) It's the other end's problem if and only if they want to get my mail.
    I simply refuse to go out of my way to work around the blockage.