Re: How to get faster completion if I make zsh assume what I've typed so far is correct?

[paxunix <paxunix@acm.org>]

paxunix wrote:

[ using  zstyle ':completion:*:paths' accept-exact '*' to avoid partial 
completion globs on directory elements ]

> There are a couple of very annoying issues with this solution:  
> ambiguous matches are not cycled through correctly and it is 
> impossible to complete some pathnames.  For example, if you have two 
> directories:
>
> dir1
> dir1~
>
> Typing dir<TAB> will complete up to 'dir1' and (in my case) show dir1 
> and dir1~ as possible completions.  Successively hitting TAB will 
> never cycle through to dir1~ - a trailing '/' is inserted after dir1 
> and zsh lists the contents of dir1 as possible completions.  It 
> appears that any common prefix to an initial path completion attempt 
> causes completion to continue inside the first directory match.  If 
> it's between a directory and a filename with a common prefix, things 
> work as they are supposed to.

On a hunch, I changed the '*' to '*(N)', so my resulting zstyle line became:

zstyle ':completion:*:paths' accept-exact '*(N)'

and so far this seems to do precisely what I want, without the above 
annoyances.  I especially noticed the difference when completing 
dotfiles in my home directory.  Without '*(N)', try:

ls ~/.<TAB>

and notice that none of the dotfiles are given as possible completions.  
Instead you get a trailing slash appended and then non-dotfile 
completions from the home directory.  With '*(N)', this works as expected.

-- 
Shawn Halpenny