Completion in pwd before subdirecories

Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Jesper Holmberg]

I use menu-complete. I don't know if zsh has changed its default behavior
in recent versions, or if I only now noticed something I haven't noticed
before.

In any case, suppose I have these files in a directory:

dota1.pdf dota2.pdf dir

where dir is a directory.

If I now type xpdf d<tab>, zsh will suggest dir as the first completion. I
would prefer it if it tried it with any file matching in the current
directory, before going into the sub directories. I would thus rather see
dota1.pdf and dota2.pdf suggested before dir, in my example.

Is this possible?

Jesper


This is zsh 4.1.1 under Debian.

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 13,  4:46pm, Jesper Holmberg wrote:
}
} In any case, suppose I have these files in a directory:
} 
} dota1.pdf dota2.pdf dir
} 
} where dir is a directory.
} 
} If I now type xpdf d<tab>, zsh will suggest dir as the first completion.

Are you sure this isn't happening just because zsh presents the menu in
alphabetical order?

} I would prefer it if it tried it with any file matching in the current
} directory, before going into the sub directories. I would thus rather see
} dota1.pdf and dota2.pdf suggested before dir, in my example.
} 
} Is this possible?

It depends on wheher you're using compsys or compctl.  Does your .zshrc
(or the /etc/z* files, I'm not familiar with Debian) contain

    autoload -U compinit
    compinit

??  If not, you have almost no control over the sorting order.

If you are using compsys, then the group-order style is probably what
you want:

zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
zstyle ':completion:*' group-order files directories

Read "man zshcompsys" for descriptions of group-name and group-order.

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Jesper Holmberg]

* On Sat Dec 13, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 13,  4:46pm, Jesper Holmberg wrote:
> } If I now type xpdf d<tab>, zsh will suggest dir as the first completion.
> 
> Are you sure this isn't happening just because zsh presents the menu in
> alphabetical order?

Yes you're right, it's the alphabetical order.

 
> } I would prefer it if it tried it with any file matching in the current
> } directory, before going into the sub directories. I would thus rather see
> } dota1.pdf and dota2.pdf suggested before dir, in my example.
> } 
> } Is this possible?
> 
> It depends on wheher you're using compsys or compctl.  Does your .zshrc
> (or the /etc/z* files, I'm not familiar with Debian) contain
> 
>     autoload -U compinit
>     compinit
> 
> ??  If not, you have almost no control over the sorting order.

I use compsys, with the above-mentioned lines in my .zshrc

 
> If you are using compsys, then the group-order style is probably what
> you want:
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
> zstyle ':completion:*' group-order files directories

I tried this, and I think I understand what it does, but it doesn't make
any difference. If I have this:

dar dir dor

where dir is a directory, typing cat <tab> still gives me dar dir dor in
that order.

Jesper

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Oliver Kiddle]

Jesper Holmberg wrote:

> > zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
> > zstyle ':completion:*' group-order files directories
> 
> I tried this, and I think I understand what it does, but it doesn't make
> any difference. If I have this:

Files are completed with the all-files and globbed-files tags so no, it
doesn't work.

You need something like:

  zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
      '*(-/):directories %p(^-/):globbed-files' '*:all-files'
  zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
  zstyle ':completion:*' group-order \
      globbed-files all-files directories

Unfortunately, that will now break for any completion which specifies a
glob qualifier such as _chown. I've been meaning to go through adding
`#q' into all of them to allow this.

I'm not quite sure whether the default file-patterns style shouldn't
use %p(^-/) for globbed-files anyway. What if we want to glob directory
names from a completion function? Comments on this should probably go
to -workers.

Oliver

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Jesper Holmberg]

* On Mon Dec 15, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> You need something like:
> 
>   zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
>       '*(-/):directories %p(^-/):globbed-files' '*:all-files'
>   zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
>   zstyle ':completion:*' group-order \
>       globbed-files all-files directories
> 
> Unfortunately, that will now break for any completion which specifies a
> glob qualifier such as _chown. I've been meaning to go through adding
> `#q' into all of them to allow this.

I put your lines in my .zshrc, but now I get surprising results:

% ls -R
.:
dar  dir  dor

./dir:
dur

i.e. dir is a directory including a file called dur.

Now "cat d<tab>" gives dir/, yet another <tab> gives dir/dur, and then it
stays dir/dur no matter how many times I hit <tab>. 

Jesper

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 15,  1:51pm, Jesper Holmberg wrote:
} Subject: Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories
}
} >   zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
} >       '*(-/):directories %p(^-/):globbed-files' '*:all-files'
} >   zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
} >   zstyle ':completion:*' group-order \
} >       globbed-files all-files directories
} > 
} I put your lines in my .zshrc, but now I get surprising results:

There's yet another bug wherein %p is not expanded correctly in the
file-patterns style, which may be affecting you.  That was fixed in
zsh-workers/18811, I believe.

Re: Completion in pwd before subdirecories

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 15, 12:49pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
}
} > > zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
} > > zstyle ':completion:*' group-order files directories
} > 
} > I tried this, and I think I understand what it does, but it doesn't make
} > any difference.
} 
} Files are completed with the all-files and globbed-files tags so no, it
} doesn't work.

Oops.  That's what I get for cut'n'pasting from my cvs completion style;
the cvs completer does have "files" and "directories" by default.