Sorry about this, I'm attaching the relevant (and maybe some irrelevant) 
parts of my .zshrc
I changed from using file-patterns to simply list-dirs-first, which 
seems to have the same effect (without allowing me to manually specify 
tags and desciptions). In any case, if anyone has an idea for a 
workaround, I'd love to hear it

On 29/12/14 05:55, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 27, 11:37pm, Aleksandrina Nikolova wrote:
> }
> } I hope I made myself clear. How can I "fix this"?
>
> You haven't made yourself entirely clear because there must be some
> zstyle values or other settings that get you to the situation you have
> so far.  For example, I can't get anything even close to your example
> output without at least "setopt globcomplete".
>
> However, I *think* the answer to your question is "you can't."  The
> _path_files completion function unconditionally passes the -p (hide
> prefix) option to "compadd" with the longest unambiguous directory
> path of every file name that it finds.
>
> I thought perhaps the "fake" style could be caused to create a false
> ambiguity that would get you what you wanted, but I haven't managed
> to formulate a working example.