Sorry for the late reply, I tried both versions (with and without
parentheses).

I tried to descend into 'src/python/api' by typing 'cd s<Tab>', later with
src completed, 'cd src/py<Tab>'.
Here are the results: using the value 'tag-order local-directories
named-directories' helped with completing src/, the directory name was
completed immediately upon hitting Tab. The second dir (python) was not
completed on the first Tab press. Typing another Tab did *not* produce a
list of suggestions.

Here is the result of 'sr<ctrl+x h>' and 'src/py<ctrl+x h>'.

% cd sr<ctrl+x h>
tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
local-directories named-directories      (_cd)
users named-directories directory-stack  (_tilde _cd)
users                                    (_users _tilde _cd)

% cd src/py<ctrl+x h>
tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
named-directories  (_cd)
local-directories  (_cd)

% cd src/python/<ctrl+x h>
(no results)

Do you think that there is anything suspicious? Personally I wonder why
there are duplicated entries in the first case and why are the tags listed
in a reversed order in the second case. And yes, the empty result list in
the last case.

Peter

сре, 4. авг 2021. у 19:26 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> је
написао/ла:

> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:50 AM Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems like the completion engine cannot choose between the named
> directory and a local directory of the same name. In reality, they point to
> the same dir.
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this behavior?
>
> Yes.  The default is to offer all possible completions at the same
> time, but you can change that with the tag-order zstyle.
>
> The default behaves mostly like this:
> zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order "local-directories
> named-directories"
> (all tags in the same space-separated string are offered at the same time)
>
> What you want is more like this:
> zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order local-directories
> named-directories
>
> You can reverse the order if you prefer to see the named-directories first:
> zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order named-directories
> local-directories
>
> Anything in a tag you don't include in the list will be offered if
> there are no results for the tags you do list.
>