Re: different kind of glob_complete?

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Sep 3, 12:39am, Will Day wrote:
> } Subject: different kind of glob_complete?
> }
> } Here's something I've been wondering about - can I get zsh to perform menu
> } completion of glob patterns that match exactly the end of a string?
> } 
> } I'm thinking this would be like glob_complete:
> } but _without_ the trailing '*'?
> 
> This is interesting.  Compare manual entries; here again is 3.1.6:
> 
> [ manuals for 3.0.6 and 3.1.6 being differently ]
> 
> I think the 3.1.6 behavior was introduced by Sven in zsh-workers/5871, and
> was briefly discussed at that time.  Here's a case where it might differ a
> lot from the 3.0.6 behavior, and it sounds as if Will would prefer the old
> form -- in fact, he'd prefer that completion were not attempted again when
> no matches are found in the first place.
> 
> You can certainly get this by some arrangement of the settings for the new
> function-based completion system, but I could understand the confusion if
> formerly zsh glob-completed file.11 and file.21 but now it glob-completes
> filefoo91blather as well.

No, the behavior wasn't changed, only the manual was corrected, see
zsh-workers/5879. I /think/ we once had this (trying it first without
the `*'), but I don't remember when we lost it.

And, of course for the new completion system it's already there, just
use the `_match' completer with a configuration of `match_original=only'
or `match_original=yes'.

So, yes, the code in tricky.c can do this now (this was added in
5871), but I didn't change the behavior of compctl-style completion.
We could add an option to allow this for it, but should we? Or may
this be an incentive to go to the new completion system?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de