.. completion

.. completion

[Danijel Tasov]

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Hello World,

I'm an enthused zsh-user. 

I have a Problem with compctl. I don't use any completion
control, but there is something that bothers me.

When I type /us it will be completed to /usr/ when pressing TAB,
but .. will not be completed to ../ like in tcsh. I'm sure there
is one, but compctl is very cryptic to me, and this is the only
thing I miss.

bye,
Da.Ta.

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Re: .. completion

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 16,  7:52pm, Danijel Tasov wrote:
} 
} When I type /us it will be completed to /usr/ when pressing TAB,
} but .. will not be completed to ../ like in tcsh.

Zsh tends to ignore '..' on the grounds that you only have to type one
character either way, so it's not a hardship to type '/' instead of TAB.

In 4.0.1 with the `compinit' system installed, you can fix this in some
contexts by using:

    zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs ".."

I say "in some contexts" because the special-dirs style applies only when
completing path names or directories, not when completing file names.  So
the above style will allow '..' to complete to '../' after 'cd', but not
after 'ls' (for example).  This is probably a bug.

To zsh-workers:

In _path_files, the special-dirs style is looked up only as a string, but
the documentation says it may be either a string or a boolean.  Then the
string is used only if there's already a '/' on the line or if the -f or
-/ options were given.

However, in _files, _path_files is always called with -g option, so the
special-dirs style doesn't work at all for _files.

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Re: .. completion

[Danijel Tasov]

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Hello,

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 07:52:36PM +0200, Danijel Tasov wrote:
> When I type /us it will be completed to /usr/ when pressing TAB,
> but .. will not be completed to ../ like in tcsh. I'm sure there
                                                   ^
There is a sentence missing :) Something like, "Is there any
solution?" or so ;)

> is one, but compctl is very cryptic to me, and this is the only

bye,
Da. "To drunken to write" Ta.

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Re: .. completion

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Danijel Tasov wrote:

> Hello World,
> 
> I'm an enthused zsh-user. 
> 
> I have a Problem with compctl. I don't use any completion
> control, but there is something that bothers me.
> 
> When I type /us it will be completed to /usr/ when pressing TAB,
> but .. will not be completed to ../ like in tcsh. I'm sure there
> is one, but compctl is very cryptic to me, and this is the only
> thing I miss.

Bart already pointed you to the new completion system.

If, for some reason, you can't use that, the way to make completion with
compctl accept `..' as a possible match (which in turn makes it add the
slash) is to add `-g ".."' to all your compctl's that generate filenames
as possible matches (using the -f, -/ or -g options -- in the last case
you can just add the `..' to -g's already existing argument).


Bye
  Sven


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