From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11148 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2016 13:14:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 22122 Received: (qmail 6206 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2016 13:14:38 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(129.206.119.212):SA:0(-5.2/5.0):. Processed in 1.175851 secs); 19 Nov 2016 13:14:38 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: pseyfert@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de does not designate permitted sender hosts) To: Zsh Users From: Paul Seyfert Subject: avoiding duplications when using _path_files in completion function X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <59f455d8-de16-b735-ba37-8b3f1f0be5b2@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:26:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm writing a zsh tab completion function for a program which should get started as: PROGRAM INPUTFILE1 INPUTFILE2 [possibly more input files] Typically one doesn't want to provide a file twice, so in a directory with two files cumbersome_long_5_filename.extension cumbersome_long_X_filename.extension i want to only suggest files which don't occur in the current line already: PROGRAM cumbersome_lone_5_filename.extension - -> suggest only cumbersome_lone_X_filename.extension I imagine this is desired in other places as well and solutions exist. So far I'm using (after some if for other use cases and non-filename suggestions) _path_files -g '*(/) *.extension' which does suggest files several times. I tried the -F option (for testing when suggesting the second filename, providing the first filename to -F): _path_files -F "$words[2]" -g '*(/) *.extension' but this keeps suggesting the first file a second time (in zsh 5.2). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYMETlAAoJEPOmP9OjPXmrOXMP+wSrMkmWaQGOqgAKo3sTBq5W DgLJBOgqYVfYXgDn5hx98sIuytVigI2rjHBOn6AnZhNqgFhIjIy6YmshJ6bHsLX6 2y23BuBlkuiNUW95WmMK4KAG9Ucov7oYIPPKZE9OTFzODnE75SJjZCSi+R57DusA 9L5pd/Rd0W6quy3qTcZsCVutroiRImf/LG8IHBXKnHWekidZAkrZdLakObDEkiX/ wwFrAhvCskxS4z6UfayUebnKUKsV20hRl4KzIG5BGbjXkuo+DIv7hfnkA5beJic9 6JObYdoc/j1RROddAOQkNeWUP4pJwjoOM3nOxQu7XkjSnozoH2mqIBlSXn6vIzsi 6W82DP+KGuOkHmHu/HuR5vYt3HtejPltP8NOJFbjiMp4thFlRE67xLmOPVjA92Uy kfN1L5aZDzgaMDENg9moxmnsGmeYzfvh5Cw+gwGVLPoamT11/RjUC1NsjwLnfAjn PrNQzL5cUZUhFfr6t2bLeIXeATPm24WuSy7XDy3pY1TvohPEEvacakmfybgQbJ+/ oOg7NDFPW8jPy1XyvuBdEP596ORqANzPm6iHiyPGXIl788qWbe0usLw58yZ23ZSd Fv+wQhNziqBYdKqlu1Zx/Hg9XJ+1x0ALeswJkOtIbpO9gPE/r9R6YA14kAIuPfI4 pXaLucrse+5Nu+0QeY2r =OMx6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----