How do I get completion to only match certain types of files

How do I get completion to only match certain types of files

[Gregory Gerard]

I would like to restrict the 'cd' command so that it can only complete 
directories (or shell variables).  Other file types (like links, devices, 
etc.) would be gravy, but not necessary.  I could do the restriction in 
tcsh, but tcsh has other problems that caused me to switch to zsh.

While browsing the man page, I saw I could restrict to named directories, 
but that's not really a help.

Am I missing something in the docs?

thanks for the help,
greg

Re: How do I get completion to only match certain types of files

[Duncan Sargeant]

Gregory Gerard wrote on Sun September 28, at 22:31 -0700:
> I would like to restrict the 'cd' command so that it can only
> complete directories (or shell variables).  Other file types (like
> links, devices, etc.) would be gravy, but not necessary.  I could do
> the restriction in tcsh, but tcsh has other problems that caused me
> to switch to zsh.
> 
> While browsing the man page, I saw I could restrict to named
> directories, but that's not really a help.
> 
> Am I missing something in the docs?

I have in my .zshrc:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' + -k '(..)' cd rmdir

This works well for me, but YMMV.

cheers
,dunc
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