Re: choice of case in tab completions

Re: choice of case in tab completions

[Peter Stephenson]

Anthony Heading wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 01:31:16PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Surely this is because the match is ambiguous?  It doesn't know whether
> > you want INSTALL or Install.bin and has to pick the characters from one
> > or other.
> 
> Yes, sure.  So I'd like it always to pick the fully-completed one (i.e. the
> shortest match) because that's the only one which is immediately useful.

Aha.  I hadn't quite got that.  Setting REC_EXACT should probably fix
this, but it looks like it still doesn't get the case right, at least in
my limited attempts.  This may be a bug, although I don't usually use
that option, so I'm not sure.

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choice of case in tab completions

[Anthony Heading]

Hi,

I don't know if this is behind the times, but I
have a line:
    compctl -M 'm:{a-z}={A-Z} m:{A-Z}={a-z}'
in zshrc to induce case insensitive completion.

It works very well with one exception, where e.g. I
might have three files with the names
    include
    INSTALL
    InstallBin.dsp

(this example in fact comes from the Apache httpd root dir)

When I want to read the INSTALL file, I type:

    % more ins<TAB>

which sadly completes to:

    % more Install

I don't know why it chooses that case variant, but it seems
clearly suboptimal.  A more helpful resolution would be
to copy the case of a fully completed match - in this case
INSTALL.

Is there a way to configure zsh to do this, or a patch, or
a pointer to the right area of the code to look at?

Thanks

Anthony


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Re: choice of case in tab completions

[Peter Stephenson]

Anthony Heading wrote:
> I don't know if this is behind the times, but I
> have a line:
>     compctl -M 'm:{a-z}={A-Z} m:{A-Z}={a-z}'
> in zshrc to induce case insensitive completion.
> 
> It works very well with one exception, where e.g. I
> might have three files with the names
>     include
>     INSTALL
>     InstallBin.dsp
> 
> (this example in fact comes from the Apache httpd root dir)
> 
> When I want to read the INSTALL file, I type:
> 
>     % more ins<TAB>
> 
> which sadly completes to:
> 
>     % more Install

Surely this is because the match is ambiguous?  It doesn't know whether
you want INSTALL or Install.bin and has to pick the characters from one
or other.  You will need some other feature of zsh, such as
menucompletion, to fix that.  With my settings (with menucompletion) it
shows me InsTALL which is a sign it hasn't resolved what it's completing
yet.  (I was trying this with the new completion system, however.)

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/