Re: cd ..<tab>?

[Dennis Haney <davh@davh.dk>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

>On Feb 5,  6:19pm, Dennis Haney wrote:
>}
>} Bart Schaefer wrote:
>} 
>} >>Is there a way to make this work properly with setopt GLOB_DOTS?
>} >
>
>} It want to ignore '..' when it is a stupid choice.
>} eg.
>} mkdir Z
>} cd Z/[tab]
>} should NOT complete to 'cd Z/../'
>} (unless CHASE_DOTS is on and 'cd Z/..' will be different from 'cd .')
>
>This is a case where you need 'zstyle -e'.  You want the special-dirs
>style to be non-empty only in certain circumstances.
>
>This completes `..' only if the prefix is either empty, or has a leading
>`.' and contains no slashes:
>
>    zstyle -e ':completion:*' special-dirs \
>        '[[ $PREFIX = (|.[^/]#) ]] && reply=(..)'
>
heh Thanks. I didnt know I could run a "script" here :)

zstyle -e ':completion:*' special-dirs \
   '[[ $PREFIX = (../)#(|.|..) ]] && reply=(..)'

This will continue to work with cd ../../../..[tab] while working with 
cd .[tab]

Would you please add your (or my) little script to the documentation 
under special-dirs? :)


>
>
>To find out that `Z/..' is not the same directory as `.' requires a bit
>of extra work, which I don't have time to do just now, but you can see
>how you'd just insert that into the conditions under which the reply
>array is set by the style.
>
I dont use CHASE_DOTS luckely :)

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Dennis
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