Wildcard completion question

Wildcard completion question

[Bill Pemberton]

I have a hopefully simple completion problem with version 4.  Really
it's just a difference from 3 to 4, but I haven't been able to make 4
behave the way I want.  With version 3 (3.0.8, for example, I know
works this way) I can do something like this:

cd /lv*/bla<TAB>


And have it do completions based on that.  It'll even deal with
something like there being a /lv1/blah and an /lv9/blah2 by cycling
through both.

But I just haven't been able to figure out how to make version 4 work
the same way.


-- 
Bill

Re: Wildcard completion question

[Oliver Kiddle]

Bill Pemberton wrote:
> 
> I have a hopefully simple completion problem with version 4.  Really
> it's just a difference from 3 to 4, but I haven't been able to make 4
> behave the way I want.  With version 3 (3.0.8, for example, I know
> works this way) I can do something like this:
> 
> cd /lv*/bla<TAB>
> 
> And have it do completions based on that.  It'll even deal with
> something like there being a /lv1/blah and an /lv9/blah2 by cycling
> through both.
> 
> But I just haven't been able to figure out how to make version 4 work
> the same way.

It sounds like you need the _match completer (zstyle ':completion:*::::'
completer _match _complete). Be careful that expansion doesn't get in
the way which it might if you bind tab to something other than
complete-word or use the _expand completer before _match.

Oliver

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