tab completion list does not complete dot files

tab completion list does not complete dot files

[t takahashi]

i am not a subscriber, and hope this is ok to ask here.  seems to be.

please copy me on any replies.

when i use tab completion on a directory with dot files, the dot files
are ignored in the completion list.  "/tmp/\t" will not list
/tmp/.foo.

in the man pages i have not found a way to make zsh list the dot files
in the completion list when i press tab.  (my preferred behavior for *
expansion in both shells, otoh, is to *not* expand dots.  i have
solved that one already.)

possible?

thanks.

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Re: tab completion list does not complete dot files

[Peter Stephenson]

"t takahashi" wrote:
> when i use tab completion on a directory with dot files, the dot files
> are ignored in the completion list.  "/tmp/\t" will not list
> /tmp/.foo.
> 
> in the man pages i have not found a way to make zsh list the dot files
> in the completion list when i press tab.

I assume you are using the "new" completion system (it's not so new now).

You can make the *entire* completion system do this by putting
the following code in your initialisation file after you run "compinit":

_comp_options+=(globdots)

If your version of the shell is before 4.2, you might need to expand that:

_comp_options=($_comp_options globdots)

This will make the completion system complete files beginning with dot
in every single place it possibly could.  I don't think there's an easy
way of restricting the effect.  However, as you wanted, it won't affect
the use of globbing ("*" etc.) on the command line.

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Re: tab completion list does not complete dot files

[t takahashi]

as before, please copy me.

On 6/1/07, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> You can make the *entire* completion system do this by putting

entire?  is that important?

> the following code in your initialisation file after you run "compinit":
> 
> _comp_options+=(globdots)

i had no idea what you were talking about, because compinit said command not found, but eventually tried this:

                autoload -U compinit
                compinit
                _comp_options+=(globdots)

now it doesn't complete symlinks even when the symlinks are partly typed.  what i want is all files to be completed except . .., without affecting glob expansion.

fwiw, i use zsh mainly because bash has interrupt behavior that doesn't work the way i expect, and it's too much effort to try to figure out if bash can be fixed.  i *always* script to the intersection of the two shells and, for now, use bash for most scripts.  zsh users do seem to be friendly, which i like.  i will give up on this if it requires more typing (rsi).

thanks very much for your reply.

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Re: tab completion list does not complete dot files

[Peter Stephenson]

"t takahashi" wrote:
> > You can make the *entire* completion system do this by putting
> 
> entire?  is that important?

There's a lot of it.

> > the following code in your initialisation file after you run "compinit":
> > 
> > _comp_options+=(globdots)
> 
> i had no idea what you were talking about, because compinit said command not 
> found

So you weren't at that point using the new completion system.  That's
why I asked.

> now it doesn't complete symlinks even when the symlinks are partly
> typed.

Not only should it complete symbolic links, I can't offhand think of a
way to get it *not* to.  Does this apply to all symbolic links, or only
symbolic links that don't point at an existing file, or only symbolic
links that begin with a dot, or something else?

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