Re: known hosts tab completion

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Mikael Magnusson wrote on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 20:28:00 +0200:
> On 23 June 2012 20:18, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 22,  2:48pm, Matt Woodson wrote:
> > }
> > } Let's say I have these hosts:
> > }
> > } host01.stage.example.com
> > } host02.stage.example.com
> > } host01.prod.example.com
> > } host02.prod.example.com
> > }
> > } now, in my prompt, I will type:
> > }
> > } $ ssh hos<tab>
> > }
> > } zsh will show me:
> > }
> > } $ ssh host..example.com
> > }
> > } with the cursor right after "host" and shows me a menu with the host
> > } names in it. I like the menu showing me hostnames, I just don't want
> > } it to complete everything.
> >
> > This similar to the confusion about the default matcher-list that was
> > discussed about a month ago in the "completion oddity" thread (starts
> > with zsh-users/17099 if you want to check the archives).
> >
> > In this case, though, the default matcher-list does not include the
> > dot character, so you must have a zstyle that does.  Disable it for
> > this context and you should be able to get the behavior you want.
> 
> The default matcher-list for host completion does have the . in it, or
> rather it uses a hardcoded compadd -M 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z} r:|.=*
> r:|=*', as do a couple of other completions. zsh -f gives me the
> "magic" behaviour with just compinit, and I don't think you can

I get the same behaviour I describe in the original post under 'zsh -f'
with compinit, too.

> override compadd -M 'foo' provided stuff with styles.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson