* Autocompletion how-to?
@ 2007-09-24 11:25 Mats Ahlgren
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From: Mats Ahlgren @ 2007-09-24 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hello,
I've been experimenting with zsh with the manual as my guide, and
can't figure out how to do a few things. Might anyone please be able
to give insight and/or code snippets into how to create any of the
following functionality?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mats
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* Have the list of completions always shown if {[size of completion
list] < 50}, and dynamically shorten the list as you type each
letter.
* Have hitting 'tab' and/or '/' immediately show a list of
completions, if there is a unique match. (Currently one must
hit 'tab' after typing '/', and must also hit 'tab' after
autocompleting to a unique directory name.)
e.g.
~/doc <tab>
~/documents/ <tab> [want to skip this line]
suggestions: music, videos, etc.
e.g.
~/documents/ <tab> [want to skip hitting <tab>]
suggestions: music, videos, etc.
* Use an external script to generate completions. (I had previously
asked about this on the mailing list, but unfortunately have not been
able to come up with anything.)
e.g. fuzzy descendant name search: Hit a keyboard shortcut, get a
prompt, type something in, pass the typed string to a script that
searches for a file/folder that's a descendant of the PWD
(using 'locate') and returns to the shell a list of completions
ranked by edit distance
* Make it so that when $variables are expanded, they do not add a
space after them. (e.g. if I have $docs mapped to my 'documents'
folder, and I autocomplete '$do<tab>', then I have to hit backspace
then type '/' then start typing the rest of the directory path)
It would also be nice to have them add a '/' if the variable contains
any '/' string or if the variable name is somehow flagged as "should
add a / after autocompletion"
* Have two keys bound for menu completion, which are just like
hitting 'tab' for menu completion, except you only tab through
directories, or only files -- not both.
* Delete everything from end of line through the nearest '/' left of
the cursor.
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Also I've been having trouble finding info on the following:
* Specify a context for when specific options are passed to functions.
For example, I have an alias, which is 'place'='mv -t' (which I want
to use so I never accidentally rename a file when all I'm doing is
changing its location). I'd like to make it so 'mv -t' only
autocompletes directories as the second argument.
Sorry if one or two of these questions may be basic, but it's taken
weeks to get comfortable with zsh's powerful autocompletion system.
=)
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