From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Completion for cd
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:38:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg_McyYz8f_xyVN8c8g4xop+6J_EWj2=CUS3uu9A0SZPNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I am using zsh 5.3.1. For a long time I've had the following completion
configuration:
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{[:lower:]}={[:upper:]}' '+l:|=*'
zstyle ':completion::*:::' completer _expand _complete _prefix _approximate
_ignored
cdpath=(. /opt)
The idea is of course that if something I write is the start of a
completion, I want it to be completed. If such match is _not_ found, I want
completion to the left (prefix completion?) to be attempted. It works well.
If I stand in a directory 'statistics' containing the directories
'stats-lib' and 'stats-web', I can write 'cd web<tab>' and have it
completed to 'stats-web'. That is what I want.
However, I have a slight problem with it. In my '/opt' directory, I have a
directory called 'webcert'. If I stand in the 'statistics' directory,
writing 'cd web<tab>' gives me 'webcert', since '/opt' is in the cdpath
array. This is as expected since I have configured matcher-list to prefer
what is a prefix to what is a suffix, so 'webcert' (in the cdpath) is
found, and therefore 'stats-web' (in the current directory) is never
offered.
I would like to keep the matcher-list configuration, but for the cmpletion
to prefer matches in the current directory over matches in cdpath. I
therefore added the following configuration:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:cd:*:*' completer _expand _complete
_complete:withpath _prefix _approximate _ignored
zstyle ':completion:*:complete:cd:*:*' tag-order local-directories -
zstyle ':completion:*:withpath:cd:*:*' tag-order path-directories
This works as intended: now 'stats-web' in the current directory is
preferred over 'webcert' in cdpath, so typing 'cd web<tab>' completes to
'stats-web'. If I want to go to 'webcert', I can type 'cd webc<tab>' and it
will complete to 'webcert'.
However, now I find a surprising side-effect of this change. I have also
this configuration:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:cd:*:*' ignore-parents parent pwd
But this is broken by my change! If I go to directory 'zsh' in
'/usr/local/Cellar', and then type 'cd ../z<tab>', I am offered 'zsh'
together with 'zsh-completion', whereas before the change, I would only be
offered 'zsh-completion', since I have configured cd to ignore the current
directory.
I can't figure out why my configuration change has caused the
'ignore-parents' style to stop working.
next reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-14 17:38 Jesper Nygårds [this message]
2017-03-14 19:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-14 21:50 ` Jesper Nygårds
2017-03-15 3:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-15 7:22 ` Jesper Nygårds
2017-03-15 17:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-15 20:33 ` Jesper Nygårds
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2004-03-28 10:42 Thorsten Haude
2004-03-28 12:03 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-28 20:34 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-03-30 1:15 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-31 20:19 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-01 18:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-01 20:44 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-02 4:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-02 6:52 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-02 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-04 14:43 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-04 15:14 ` Clint Adams
2004-04-04 15:26 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-04 16:39 ` Clint Adams
2004-04-05 0:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-05 3:50 ` Clint Adams
2004-03-28 19:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-31 20:22 ` Thorsten Haude
2004-04-01 18:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-01 20:52 ` Thorsten Haude
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