Controlling the order of -/g produced files and directories

Controlling the order of -/g produced files and directories

[Hannu Koivisto]

Greetings,

I'd like to make such a completion for my utgz and vtgz shell
functions that it matches to *.tgz, *.tar.gz and directories.

My first attempt was as follows:

compctl -g '*.(tgz|tar.gz)' + -g '*(/)' utgz vtgz

This has the problem that the latter pattern is not considered
if the first matches. From completion examples I found "-/g"
option and decided to try it. That is,
compctl -/g '*.(tgz|tar.gz)' utgz vtgz

Although I didn't find explanation for this -/g option in the
documentation, this version seems to work. However, I would
prefer that if some directory has both matching files and
subdirectories then those files would be first in the list of
completions and those directories last. How should this be done?

TIA,
//Hannu

Re: Controlling the order of -/g produced files and directories

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 24,  6:34pm, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
} Subject: Controlling the order of -/g produced files and directories
}
} I'd like to make such a completion for my utgz and vtgz shell
} functions that it matches to *.tgz, *.tar.gz and directories.
} 
} compctl -/g '*.(tgz|tar.gz)' utgz vtgz
} 
} Although I didn't find explanation for this -/g option

That's not one option, it's two:
	-/
	-g '*.(tgz|tar.gz)'

It happens that you can run them together as -/g because -/ doesn't
take any additional arguments.  -/ means "complete filesystem paths."

} However, I would prefer that if some directory has both matching
} files and subdirectories then those files would be first in the
} list of completions and those directories last.

Zsh currently sorts the completion list itself, alphabetically; there
has been discussion of changing this on the developer's list, but at
the moment you can't force files to sort ahead of directories.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

Re: Controlling the order of -/g produced files and directories

[Hannu Koivisto]

"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

| } Although I didn't find explanation for this -/g option
| 
| That's not one option, it's two:
| 	-/
| 	-g '*.(tgz|tar.gz)'

Well, now that I checked it, I couldn't find explanation for -/
option either. It seems that the info manual of my zsh 3.1.2(-8,
this is from the Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 distribution) is pretty
old:
"""
Document Edition 2.1.10, last updated 15 October 1996, of `The Z Shell
Guide', for zsh, Version 3.0.1.
"""

I hope there will be an updated version because it seems that
there are new interesting features in latest zsh versions that I
am not aware of.

| Zsh currently sorts the completion list itself, alphabetically; there
| has been discussion of changing this on the developer's list, but at
| the moment you can't force files to sort ahead of directories.

Ok. Count me as interested in such a feature :)

Thanks for the information,
//Hannu