Re: cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:35:51PM +1000, ozone@ihug.com.au wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
> > symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
> > a way to do this without writing a completion function?
> > (And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
> > there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
> > find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
> > possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
> > can send it to me?
> 
>     I dunno if this is any 'good' (from a technical zsh perspective), but
> here's mine for 3.1.5.  May (not) work on 3.0.6.  Also have provided other
                              ^^^^^

*does* work on 3.0.6.

> (really) simple ones which I've used.
> 
> compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd    # what you want
> compctl -g '*(/) .*(/)' rmdir
> compctl -j -P % kill
> compctl -j -P % fg
> compctl -j -P % bg
> compctl -u w
> compctl -m whence
> compctl -c which
> compctl -c man
> compctl -u who

Looks pretty much like the stuff I use. In the end all compctl
configs end up the same :-) But I wonder why you use whence
and where at all (do you?). It's so much easier to just type

  # ls =filename

and hit TAB :-))

I'm especially fond of my man page completion.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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