From: "Stephen Riehm" <sr@pc-plus.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: zsh - new user with questions
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:33:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1256664.00540607.00@bavaria3.pc-plus.de> (raw)
Hi guys,
I know - first read the FAQ, then the man pages - done that and more and
I've still got the following questions:
(background: I'm a tcsh power-user - but due to politically induced
technical problems, I'm looking for something
more ksh compatible, but which can do a whole lot more - zsh)
- extended completion. I'm terribly used to never having to type
UPPERCASE letters, and using
extreme short cuts. ie: with tcsh's enhanced completions, to complete
the file named: ReadMe.First
all I would type id: r.f<tab> - is there a way to do this sort of
thing in zsh?
- I tried use ls ***/*(/l2) to find all the empty directories in a
tree, but it didn't work, instead it counted the number
of directories in each directory (I think, I wasn't quite sure what it
was doing)
- if you cd through a link, the prompt correctly knows where you are
logically, but cd'ing back up again
with cd .. puts you in the directory above the physical directory in
which you were. Is it possible to make
all cd's happen in relation to your logical position?
- raw completions: the completion mechanism is quite nice, even if I
haven't totally groked it yet, but
occaisonally I want to perform completions which are normally
disallowed by compctl. The simplest example is
cd. "compctl -g '*(-/)' cd" will complete nicely, unless I want to cd
into a hidden (dot) directory. Then it doesn't
complete at all. Is it possible to say that it should complete
non-hidden directories, unless the text typed indicates
otherwise, ie: if I type "cd <tab>", I get a list of all the normal
directories, but if I then type .<tab> it should use the
. and show me all the directories beginning with .
I've got lots of other questions, but they aren't as annoying as the ones
above. HAve any of you done anything in this direction
before?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
next reply other threads:[~1998-08-18 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-18 15:33 Stephen Riehm [this message]
1998-08-18 16:17 ` Matthew Lovell
1998-08-18 16:28 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-08-18 22:46 ` David Hedbor
1998-08-19 1:21 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-18 16:43 ` Zefram
1998-08-19 12:34 Stephen Riehm
1998-08-19 13:53 ` Goran Larsson
1998-08-19 16:03 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-19 15:09 Stephen Riehm
1998-08-19 17:35 ` Goran Larsson
1998-08-19 19:18 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-19 19:58 ` Roland Jesse
1998-08-20 9:47 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-08-20 11:27 Stephen Riehm
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