Glob qualifiers not working in coloured completion listings

Glob qualifiers not working in coloured completion listings

[David Evans]

  Hi there.

  Look at this:

reddwarf:~/foo> zsh --version
zsh 4.3.4 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0)
reddwarf:~/foo> ls
./  ../ d1/ d2
reddwarf:~/foo> ls -d d*(/)
d1/
reddwarf:~/foo> zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors "=d*=$colour[green]"
reddwarf:~/foo> ls -d d<TAB>
d1/  d2

[ both are green ]

reddwarf:~/foo> zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors "=d*(/)=$colour[green]"
reddwarf:~/foo> ls -d d<TAB>
d1/  d2

[ d1 isn't green! ]

So d*(/) matches what's expected when expanded as part of the execution
of ls -d, but not when used in list-colors.  Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance!

-- 
David Evans                                     David.Evans@cl.cam.ac.uk
Research Associate                        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~de239
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Re: Glob qualifiers not working in coloured completion listings

[Bart Schaefer]

On Feb 9,  4:30pm, David Evans wrote:
}
} So d*(/) matches what's expected when expanded as part of the execution
} of ls -d, but not when used in list-colors.  Any ideas?

Patterns in list colorings are exactly that:  patterns.  They are not
file expansions.  The match is done strictly on the text in the list 
of completions, and has no reference to any actual files underneath;
the strings being colored might, in fact, never have been file names
in the first place.

Re: Glob qualifiers not working in coloured completion listings

[David Evans]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:50:36AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 9,  4:30pm, David Evans wrote:
> }
> } So d*(/) matches what's expected when expanded as part of the execution
> } of ls -d, but not when used in list-colors.  Any ideas?
> 
> Patterns in list colorings are exactly that:  patterns.  They are not
> file expansions.  The match is done strictly on the text in the list 
> of completions, and has no reference to any actual files underneath;
> the strings being colored might, in fact, never have been file names
> in the first place.

  Ahhh, OK, then that explains what's happening.  A shame but
understandable.  So it seems there's no way to, for example, colour
sgid executables.

  Thanks!

-- 
David Evans                                     David.Evans@cl.cam.ac.uk
Research Associate                        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~de239
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge