[newbie] bash-like feature - autocompletion problem

[newbie] bash-like feature - autocompletion problem

[Petre Bandac]

hello

I have switched to zsh with the installation of a freebsd workstation @ home; 
among others, I have the following problem:

on my linux machine (bash-2.5) I have added one entry in /etc/hosts stating 
192.168.0.1 host1 - which helped me when ssh-ing (just typing ssh root@h[TAB] 
and I got the host1 completed)

here, using zsh, I tried to do the same, but I get something like:

[petre@kgb]$ more /etc/hosts | grep cockeru                                   
192.168.108.176          cockeru
[petre@kgb]$ ssh root@coc                                                     
No matches for: `remote host name', `host', or `corrections'

I'm using

[petre@kgb]$ zsh --version                                                    
zsh 4.0.6 (i386-portbld-freebsd4.7)


where and what should I modify ?

thanks,

petre


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Re: [newbie] bash-like feature - autocompletion problem

[Oliver Kiddle]

On 27 Jan, Petre Bandac wrote:
> 
> those are the files - I guess :-)
> 
> On Monday 27 January 2003 12:54 Anno Domini, Oliver Kiddle wrote using one of his keyboards:
> } On 24 Jan, you wrote:
> } > on my linux machine (bash-2.5) I have added one entry in /etc/hosts
> } > stating 192.168.0.1 host1 - which helped me when ssh-ing (just typing=
>  ssh
> } > root@h[TAB]
> } >
> } > and I got the host1 completed)
> } >
> } > here, using zsh, I tried to do the same, but I get something like:
> } >
> } > [petre@kgb]$ more /etc/hosts | grep cockeru
> } >
> } > 192.168.108.176          cockeru
> } > [petre@kgb]$ ssh root@coc
> } >
> } > No matches for: `remote host name', `host', or `corrections'
> }
> } It ought to work on zsh without you doing anything. You couldn't send me
> } your /etc/hosts file by any chance? Have you set a hosts zstyle?
> }
> } > where and what should I modify ?
> }
> } Normallu, for ssh, I use something like:
> } zstyle ':completion:*:(ssh|scp):*:my-accounts' users-hosts root@host1

> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".zshrc"
> 
> #
> # Example .zshrc file for zsh 4.0
> #

> # Hosts to use for completion (see later zstyle)
> hosts=(`hostname` ftp.math.gatech.edu prep.ai.mit.edu wuarchive.wustl.edu)

> zstyle '*' hosts $hosts

These two lines in your .zshrc are the reason. The hosts style here
tells zsh's hosts completion to ignore /etc/hosts and complete the
listed hosts instead. If you want it to use /etc/hosts, try removing at
least the second of those lines.

The example .zshrc wasn't really intended to be just picked up and used
after changing nothing more than the prompt.

Oliver

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Re: [newbie] bash-like feature - autocompletion problem

[Deborah Ariel Pickett]

> I have switched to zsh with the installation of a freebsd workstation @ home; 
> among others, I have the following problem:
> on my linux machine (bash-2.5) I have added one entry in /etc/hosts stating 
> 192.168.0.1 host1 - which helped me when ssh-ing (just typing ssh root@h[TAB] 
> and I got the host1 completed)
> here, using zsh, I tried to do the same, but I get something like:
> [petre@kgb]$ more /etc/hosts | grep cockeru                                   
> 192.168.108.176          cockeru
> [petre@kgb]$ ssh root@coc                                                     
> No matches for: `remote host name', `host', or `corrections'
> I'm using
> [petre@kgb]$ zsh --version                                                    
> zsh 4.0.6 (i386-portbld-freebsd4.7)
> where and what should I modify ?

Here's a little fragment of my .zshrc:

    zstyle ':completion:*' hosts `\
      [[ -f ~/.hosts ]] &&
        sed 's/ .*$//' < ~/.hosts;
      [[ -f ~/.rhosts ]] &&
        sed 's/ .*$//' < ~/.rhosts`

The whole bit between the `...` is just a sed script which grabs
hostnames from various files.  The newer (non-compctl) zsh completion
system seems to make use of a style.  If you don't set that style with a
zstyle command, zsh can't guess what your hosts are.  It seems that zsh
doesn't pick any files by default for a list of hostnames.

I'd say that in your situation you'd want to do something like

    zstyle ':completion:*' hosts `cat /etc/hosts`

(or fancier versions which I'm sure others here will suggest that don't
use cat or sed) in your .zshrc.

Let me know how it goes.

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