Substring completion

Substring completion

[Mika Borner]

Hi

I just started to use zsh, so this might sound like a newbie question.
I searched with google for a solution,  but could not find anything.
Here's my problem:

I'm trying to write a completion. All the possible arguments are in a
predefined array. Because the elements are quite complex, I want to have
a completion that works  by giving a substring of an element. All the
completions that I've found so far (e.g. file completion), demand that
the completion starts from the first letter.

 Is there a utility function to acomplish this? The man pages are
"quite" complex, so I might have overlooked something...

//Mika

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Re: Substring completion

[sac]

Hi,

Actually the following does the job.

zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}
m:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z} r:|[._-]=** r:|=** l:|=*'
'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'

The above line is generated by the program
compinstall.
For me its more of a pain than pleasure. Anyway hope
it helps you.

Regards,
sac.

--- Mika Borner <Mika.Borner@clariden.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I just started to use zsh, so this might sound like
> a newbie question.
> I searched with google for a solution,  but could
> not find anything.
> Here's my problem:
> 
> I'm trying to write a completion. All the possible
> arguments are in a
> predefined array. Because the elements are quite
> complex, I want to have
> a completion that works  by giving a substring of an
> element. All the
> completions that I've found so far (e.g. file
> completion), demand that
> the completion starts from the first letter.
> 
>  Is there a utility function to acomplish this? The
> man pages are
> "quite" complex, so I might have overlooked
> something...
> 
> //Mika
> 
> # mv Disclaimer.txt /dev/null
> 
> 
>
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