From: "Oliver Kiddle" <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Zsh users list <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>,
Michael Wardle <michael@endbracket.net>
Subject: Re: generic filename completion like "foo --file=ba<tab>"
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:09:49 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011211150949.60784.qmail@web9304.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28713.1008073725@csr.com>
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> You might want to `setopt magicequalsubst' for the best effect. This
> will
> force zsh to recognise ~-expansion after all equal signs.
If you look at _default, you'll see that it is set to complete files
after any `=' as part of the default completion if magicequalsubst is
set.
Vincent Lefèvre wrote:
> After all, you cannot assume that an argument is always a filename.
> However, the default behaviour is to complete to a filename. I think
> we should have the same behaviour (possibly optional) after a "=".
This is a fairly valid point. Maybe we should rethink what the default
is here. Perhaps making the default be to complete files here and have
it turned off with a style.
Oliver
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-11 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-11 12:21 Michael Wardle
2001-12-11 12:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-12-11 12:32 ` Will Yardley
2001-12-11 12:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-12-11 12:49 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-12-11 13:25 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-12-11 12:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-12-11 15:09 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
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