On 13/04/15 03:18, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
>> I have set the
>> completion system to ignore hidden files and only show them when there
>> are no other options (no other files in the listed directory or I
>> explicitly type . at the beginning).
> This actually should be the default behavior with no ignored-patterns set
> at all.
Oh, sorry about this, I thought the options I have set don't affect the 
style in particular, but you're right. I attach a more complete .zshrc 
with the options I have set as well.
> Once I got that straight I was able to find the real reason for:
>
>> It works perfectly with all
>> commands but mkdir, which simply refuses to offer hidden files, ever.
> Which turns out to be that _mkdir calls _message which breaks out of the
> loop over _completers in _main_complete, so the _ignored completer in your
> style is never reached.
>
> This would not happen if you did not have a "format" style for the context
> with tag "descriptions" (which is used as a fallback for tag "messages").
>
> _message really ought to be called only when there is no possibility of
> other completions being generated, not merely to suggest what ought to
> be typed at that point.  Either that or it needs some option (the inverse
> of "_message -e"?) that tells _main_complete to continue even though a
> message is pending.
>
> There is at least a workaround:
>
>     zstyle ':completion::*:mkdir::messages' format ''
Great find! Although that workaround did not work for me, the one that 
did (a more ugly one, but...) was to simply remove the call to _messages:
functions[_mkdir]="${functions[_mkdir]:s/ || _message 'name of directory'/}"
And now it works great. Thank you!