Completion order for approximate

Completion order for approximate

[A. Wik]

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up the approximate expansion so that the original
string comes before the corrections in the menu.

This doesn't work:
zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' tag-order 'original corrections'

Test case: grpo<tab>
% gprof
corrections (errors: 1)
gprof      grog       grotty     groupdel   groupmod   growisofs  grpconv
groff      grops      groupadd   groupmems  groups     grpck      grpunconv
original:
grpo

"grpo" is a mistyped "grep".

Regards,
Albert.

Re: Completion order for approximate

[Peter Stephenson]

> On 04 December 2020 at 16:49 "A. Wik" <awik32@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up the approximate expansion so that the original
> string comes before the corrections in the menu.
> 
> This doesn't work:
> zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' tag-order 'original corrections'

You need:

zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' group-order original corrections

--- note also no quotes.  See group-order in the zshcompsys manual for more.
tag-order specifies the order completions are looked for, not the order they're
displayed in.  To specify an order, you need separate words on the command line;
values in the same set of quotes are treated as being together (sometimes useful
for tag-order, not for group-order).

pws

Re: Completion order for approximate

[A. Wik]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 17:00, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On 04 December 2020 at 16:49 "A. Wik" <awik32@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up the approximate expansion so that the original
> > string comes before the corrections in the menu.
> >
> > This doesn't work:
> > zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' tag-order 'original corrections'
>
> You need:
>
> zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' group-order original corrections
>
> --- note also no quotes.  See group-order in the zshcompsys manual for more.
> tag-order specifies the order completions are looked for, not the order they're
> displayed in.  To specify an order, you need separate words on the command line;
> values in the same set of quotes are treated as being together (sometimes useful
> for tag-order, not for group-order).
>
> pws

Thanks.  Incidentally, I'm reading (and intermittently following the
suggestions in) your book.

-aw