Re: Case-insensitive completion of files with matcher-list

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@berkom.de>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> 
> > zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> >
> > That works fine indeed, but what if I want case-insensitive
> > completion only for files?  After reading about contexts and
> > fiddling with C-x h, I figured that
> >
> > zstyle ':completion:*:all-files' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> >
> > should do the trick
> 
> You're not quite right.  matcher-list is used only at the global level,
> not for individual tags like all-files.  For an individual tag, you want
> to use just the 'matcher' style:
> 
>  zstyle ':completion:*:all-files' matcher 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> 
> Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug in _path_files -- it copies any
> global matcher from matcher-list through to the call to compfiles, but it
> doesn't do the same for a matcher passed to it with the -M option (which
> is where the string from the matcher style ends up).
> 
> Unfortunately I don't see offhand how to fix this.  Sven?

It's collected in $matcher and I really think it was an oversight.
Sorry for this (and for sending a patch to -users).

Also note that one might want to include the other file-tags in this
case, e.g.: `:completion:*:(direcories|((all-|globbed-|)files))'.


Bye
  Sven

Index: Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 _path_files
--- Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files	17 Oct 2001 13:29:21 -0000	1.14
+++ Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files	16 Apr 2002 08:24:00 -0000
@@ -335,11 +335,11 @@
     tmp2=( "$tmp1[@]" )
 
     if [[ "$tpre$tsuf" = */* ]]; then
-      compfiles -P$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher" "$sdirs" fake
+      compfiles -P$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher $matcher[2]" "$sdirs" fake
     elif [[ "$sopt" = *[/f]* ]]; then
-      compfiles -p$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher" "$sdirs" fake "$pats[@]"
+      compfiles -p$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher $matcher[2]" "$sdirs" fake "$pats[@]"
     else
-      compfiles -p$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher" '' fake "$pats[@]"
+      compfiles -p$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher $matcher[2]" '' fake "$pats[@]"
     fi
     tmp1=( $~tmp1 )
 

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Sven Wischnowsky                          wischnow@berkom.de