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From: John <jmharres@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: problem with zstyle file-patterns
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Argh, yes.  Not doing the compinit part was the problem.  All set now.  
Thanks!
John

On 11/5/13, 12:31 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 4,  8:36pm, John wrote:
> }
> } I'm having an issue with file-patterns on zstyle:
> }
> } % zstyle ':completion:*:*:yes:files' file-patterns '*XXX.*'
>
> First problem is that this zstyle pattern is wrong.  The file-patterns
> style is looked up using the context ":completion::complete:yes::"
> which does not match ":completion:*:*:yes:files".
>
> Second problem is that even if the ":tag" part of the style were to
> be used, the tag "files" is not valid.
>
> The zle keybinding ctrl+x h (_complete_help) would have shown you this
> *if* you used it *before* you executed the above zstyle command:
>
> % yes <C-x h>
> tags in context :completion::complete:yes::
>      all-files  (_files _default)
>
> Once you run the above zstyle, you've [unintentionally] created a
> "files" tag, but that doesn't matter because the doc for file-patterns
> says:
>
>       The file-patterns style provides alternatives to the default tags,
>       which are not used.  Its value consists of elements of the form
>       `PATTERN:TAG'; each string may contain any number of such
>       specifications separated by spaces.
>
> Note that it says the default tags aren't used.  That's because you can
> use file-patterns to define what the tags are, so there can't yet be any
> tags at the time this zstyle is looked up.  That could be clearer (it
> should probably say that *no* tags are used).
>
> Try instead
>
>      zstyle ':completion:*:*:yes::' file-patterns '*XXX.*:files'