compctl and firefox

compctl and firefox

[Bruno Tavernier]

Hello all,

I've got an issue with the completion mechanism.

In my .zshrc, I have this
,----
| compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' firefox
| compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' w3m
`----
Note: these are the only lines where html, firefox or w3m appear

w3m works fine (i.e. only html files are listed)
,----
| % w3m <TAB>
| % w3m
| test.html
`----

However for firefox it fails...
,----
| % firefox <TAB>
| % firefox
| test.dat
| test.html
`----

If in .zshrc I replace firefox by firefo
then it works.
,----
| % firefo <TAB>
| % firefo
| test.html
`----

Can anyone reproduce this? How can I debug that?


-- 
Bruno

Re: compctl and firefox

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 18, 12:59pm, Bruno Tavernier wrote:
}
} In my .zshrc, I have this
} ,----
} | compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' firefox
} | compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' w3m
} `----

Are you certain that you're even using the compctl completions?  Most
configurations nowadays use what we call "compsys", and have compctl
as a fallback at best.

} w3m works fine (i.e. only html files are listed)
} ,----
} | % w3m <TAB>
} | % w3m
} | test.html
} `----

If instead of <TAB> you type <ctl+x>h what do you see?  If similar to:

tags in context :completion::complete:w3m::
    argument-rest options  (_arguments _w3m (eval))
...

then you need to use styles instead of compctl commands to control the
patterns used for file matching, like this:

zstyle ':completion::complete:firefox:*:' file-patterns '*(-/) *.html'

Re: compctl and firefox

[Bruno Tavernier]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Nov 18, 12:59pm, Bruno Tavernier wrote:
> }
> } In my .zshrc, I have this
> } ,----
> } | compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' firefox
> } | compctl -g '*(-/) *.html' w3m
> } `----
>
> Are you certain that you're even using the compctl completions?  Most
> configurations nowadays use what we call "compsys", and have compctl
> as a fallback at best.
>
> } w3m works fine (i.e. only html files are listed)
> } ,----
> } | % w3m <TAB>
> } | % w3m
> } | test.html
> } `----
>
> If instead of <TAB> you type <ctl+x>h what do you see?  If similar to:
>
> tags in context :completion::complete:w3m::
>     argument-rest options  (_arguments _w3m (eval))
> ...
>
> then you need to use styles instead of compctl commands to control the
> patterns used for file matching, like this:
>
> zstyle ':completion::complete:firefox:*:' file-patterns '*(-/) *.html'

zstyle does the job! These compctl were probably remains of an old
config. My apologies for the noise.

Thank you Bart!


-- 
Bruno