From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:10:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409131610.i8DGA7nS005897@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913152958.GA19979@apartia.fr>
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried that:
>
> % bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk<1-19>.bz2<TAB>
>
> and obtained:
>
> bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk10.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-b
> k11.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk12.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk13.bz2 ../patch-2.6.
> 9-rc1-bk14.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk15.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk16.bz2 ../pat
> ch-2.6.9-rc1-bk17.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk18.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk19.bz2
> ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk2.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk3
> .bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk4.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk5.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1
> -bk6.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk7.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk8.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9
> -rc1-bk9.bz2
>
> which really suprised my as I thought the whole point of the <-> pattern
> was to allow for an ordered sequence to be returned (contrary to a
> simple *).
>
> Am I mistaken in that belief?
Yes. However, you can set the option numeric_glob_sort. A quick test
suggests completion will obey this, which does what you want. Note that
that's independent of how the matches were generated, however, so
replacing <1-19> with * wouldn't change the result.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 15:29 Louis-David Mitterrand
2004-09-13 16:00 ` Oliver Kiddle
2004-09-14 7:20 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2004-09-13 16:10 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2004-09-14 7:26 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
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