cd directory completion?

cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

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?

Bye

Dominik ^_^

P.S.: please CC me on replies, I'm not on the list.

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Andre Pang]

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
(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

    Flame away if any of them suck :).


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Re: cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

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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Re: cd directory completion?

[Sweth Chandramouli]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:07:16PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> 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 :-))

	yes, but that returns totally different information, especially in
zsh, where which and type are just cosmetic variants of whence--all three
thus go through the entire process of command lookup, including functions
and builtins.  the =<command> syntax just does alias expansion and 
executable searching via path, while (k/c)sh-style which just does executable
searching; these two also thus do not provide any information about whether 
some command is a function or a builtin, and don't expand aliases/functions/
builtins so that you can quickly see their definition without looking at
source files, etc.

	(i personally think the zsh versions of those commands should mirror 
the equivalent ksh tools in behaviour (it's sometimes very useful to only
do executable searching, for example), but since /bin/which and /bin/type
exist and act like the ksh versions, i've just aliased which and type to 
their executable versions.  (of course, then you have issues figuring out
just what `alias which=/bin/which ; alias which=$(whence -a which | head -1)' 
does, but that's what makes playing with your shell fun.))

	-- sweth.

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Bek Oberin]

Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 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 :-))

Wow, I never heard of that one!  Thanks :)


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Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Sven Guckes]

* On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:07:16PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>   # ls =filename
> and hit TAB :-))

* Sweth Chandramouli (sweth@gwu.edu) [990823 15:03]:
> yes, but that returns totally different information, especially in zsh,
> [...]
> (of course, then you have issues figuring out just what
> `alias which=/bin/which ; alias which=$(whence -a which | head -1)'
> does, but that's what makes playing with your shell fun.))

Apropos:

_listall () {
   if [[ $# = 0 ]]
   then
     echo "Usage:    $0 program"
     echo "Example:  $0 zsh"
     echo "Lists all occurrences of program in the current PATH."
   else
     for program in `which -a $1`
     do
       ls -lL $program
     done
   fi
}

Comments?

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Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Hubert Canon]

Sven Guckes écrivait :
> Apropos:
> 
> _listall () {
>    if [[ $# = 0 ]]
>    then
>      echo "Usage:    $0 program"
>      echo "Example:  $0 zsh"
>      echo "Lists all occurrences of program in the current PATH."
>    else
>      for program in `which -a $1`
>      do
>        ls -lL $program
>      done
>    fi
> }
> 
> Comments?

Gives strange things with aliases and functions :

% which -a which
which: aliased to which -a
which: shell built-in command
/bin/which
/usr/bin/which
% _listall which  
ls: which:: No such file or directory
ls: aliased: No such file or directory
ls: to: No such file or directory
ls: which: No such file or directory
total 4
drwx------   2 canon    pampa         512 Aug 25 16:21 .
drwx------   5 canon    pampa        2560 Aug 25 16:21 ..
ls: which:: No such file or directory
ls: shell: No such file or directory
ls: built-in: No such file or directory
ls: command: No such file or directory
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          1155 Oct 25  1995 /bin/which
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          1155 Oct 25  1995 /usr/bin/which


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Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Sven Guckes]

* Sven Guckes écrivait :
> Comments?

* Hubert Canon (Hubert.Canon@irisa.fr) [990825 14:22]:
> Gives strange things with aliases and functions :

True.  So, how to take care of these?

"if type(foo)==alias"?

Sven

Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Paul Lew]

>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Guckes <guckes@math.fu-berlin.de> writes:

    Sven> * Hubert Canon (Hubert.Canon@irisa.fr) [990825 14:22]:
    >> Gives strange things with aliases and functions :

    Sven> True.  So, how to take care of these?

    Sven> "if type(foo)==alias"?

Just add -p to which command, which -ap instead which -a.
I often use:

	ls -l $(which -ap zsh)

Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[James Cribb]

Sven Guckes wrote:
> 
> _listall () {
>    if [[ $# = 0 ]]
>    then
>      echo "Usage:    $0 program"
>      echo "Example:  $0 zsh"
>      echo "Lists all occurrences of program in the current PATH."
>    else
>      for program in `which -a $1`
>      do
>        ls -lL $program
>      done
>    fi
> }
> 
> Comments?

I often use "ls -l $^path/foo 2>/dev/null".

Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Sven Guckes]

* James Cribb (jamesc@zip.com.au) [990826 04:01]:
> I often use "ls -l $^path/foo 2>/dev/null".

Redirecting error messages is for wimps.  ;-)

Sven

Re: listing all executables matching 'foo'

[Sweth Chandramouli]

On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 03:46:32PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> _listall () {
>    if [[ $# = 0 ]]
>    then
>      echo "Usage:    $0 program"
>      echo "Example:  $0 zsh"
>      echo "Lists all occurrences of program in the current PATH."
>    else
>      for program in `which -a $1`
>      do
>        ls -lL $program
>      done
>    fi
> }
> 
> Comments?
	i've got a similar function i use called lall.  it figures out
whether each command returned by whence -a is an executable, an
alias, a function, or a builtin, and then returns more info based
on that decision--an ls for executables, a whence -f for functions,
or an ls of the core command of the expanded alias for aliases.
it's actually pretty cool, if i do say so myself:

(cj952583-b)~: lall ll
ll is an alias for ls -lF:
   ls is /bin/ls:
      -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        18120 Oct  6  1998 /bin/ls
   ls is /usr/bin/ls:
      -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        18120 Oct  6  1998 /usr/bin/ls
   ls is /usr/xpg4/bin/ls:
      -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        18128 Sep  1  1998 /usr/xpg4/bin/ls
   ls is /usr/ucb/ls:
      -rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        13776 Sep  1  1998 /usr/ucb/ls
(cj952583-b)~: lall cd
cd is a shell builtin
cd is /bin/cd:
   -r-xr-xr-x  17 bin      bin          131 Oct  6  1998 /bin/cd
cd is /usr/bin/cd:
   -r-xr-xr-x  17 bin      bin          131 Oct  6  1998 /usr/bin/cd
(cj952583-b)~: lall xbuffy
xbuffy is a shell function:
   undefined xbuffy () { }
xbuffy is /usr/local/bin/xbuffy:
   lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         22 Jul 21 16:18 /usr/local/bin/xbuffy
-> /opt/xbuffy/bin/xbuffy
(cj952583-b)~: lall chunk
chunk is a shell function:
   chunk () {
        local LENGTH=$(( ${LINES:-20}/2-2 ))
        local START=${LENGTH}
        if [[ ${1#-} != ${1} ]]
        then
                START=${(R)1#-}
                shift
        fi
        tail -${START} ${@} | head -${LENGTH}
   }
(cj952583-b)~: cat .zfunc/lall
#!/usr/local/bin/zsh -f

# lall -- function to List ALL commands that might be run given the
# current environment, and give info about them if possible.

lall () {

   # extremely verbose whence; lall is just a wrapper to iterate it across
   # the positional params.
   v_whence () {
      for CMD in ${(f)"$(builtin whence -av ${1})"} ; do 

         # this matches any executables found and does an ls on them.
         # the (|.) is the zsh version of ?(.), it seems; i use it to
         # match things in the current directory, too, since i am one of
         # those unsecure folks with CWD (.) at the end of my path.
         if [[ ${CMD%%(|.)/*} != ${CMD} ]] ; then
            builtin echo "${CMD}:"
            builtin echo "   $(ls -l ${(M)CMD%%(|.)/*})"

         # this matches functions and gives their expansion.
         elif [[ ${CMD%%function} != ${CMD} ]] ; then
            builtin echo "${CMD}:"
            # using sed would be much cleaner, but i like zsh-only functions.
            # would that ls were a builtin...
            for LINE in ${(f)"$(builtin whence -f ${1})"} ; do
               builtin echo "   ${LINE}"
            done

         # okay, so this is a bit excessive.  if it's an alias, we actually
         # say so and then start over by running v_whence on the first 
         # token of the expanded alias.  (some days i scare myself.)
         elif [[ ${CMD##*alias for } != ${CMD} ]] ; then
            builtin echo "${CMD}:"
            for LINE in ${(f)"$(v_whence ${${CMD##*alias for }%% *})"} ; do
               builtin echo "   ${LINE}"
            done

         # if it still isn't matched, it's a shell builtin.
         else
            builtin echo "${CMD}"
         fi
      done
   }
   
   for WORD in "${@}" ; do
      v_whence ${WORD}
   done
}

	other than the hideous "for LINE in ..." kludge, of which i've grown
unreasonably fond, any suggestions for improvement?  i thought about doing a
whence -avf initially to obviate the need for it later if a function was
matched, but the formatting became much more convoluted then, so i gave up
on it.  i've also thought about making it accept a -v flag, to make it
even more verbose--maybe run file on the executables as well, or something
like that.

	-- sweth.

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Swen Thuemmler]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
> 3.0.6:
> 
>   # compctl -/ cd
>   compctl: bad option: -/
> 
> I'll settle for
> 
>   compctl -n -g '*(-/) .*(-/) cd pushd
> 
> instead. Many thanks

Hmm. I don't know if it does in 3.0.6, but in 3.1.5, this does not
complete .., so you always have to add the '/' if you want to cd
../something. I use the following:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '..' + -g '.*(-/)' cd chdir dirs pushd

Greetings, Swen

Re: cd directory completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Dominik Vogt wrote:

> Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
> 3.0.6:
> 
>   # compctl -/ cd
>   compctl: bad option: -/

Oops, I though that got added to 3.0.6, too. Sorry.

Bye
 Sven


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Re: cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:26:11PM +0200, wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> The simplest solution: compctl -/ cd

Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
3.0.6:

  # compctl -/ cd
  compctl: bad option: -/

I'll settle for

  compctl -n -g '*(-/) .*(-/) cd pushd

instead. Many thanks

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Re: cd directory completion?

[John Riddoch]

>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 have:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' -v cd pushd rmdir
in my .zshrc file and it works fine for me, completing between dirs and 
symlinks to dirs and ignoring files.  I think I got it from www.dotfiles.com

>P.S.: please CC me on replies, I'm not on the list.

Well, you probably should be...

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

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?

The simplest solution: compctl -/ cd

For more, see the `compctl-examples' file or the examples at
http://www.zsh.org.


Bye
 Sven


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