OK, more clarification. I've used "zstyle
':completion:*:*:*:*:descriptions'".

Now it seems that with the second completed path, the completion engine
cannot decide between these two:

% cd src/python<Tab>
-- directory after cdablevar --
-- local directory --

Frankly, I still don't understand what the problem is, because I'm *inside*
a dir pointed to by a named directory (src/ in this case) and both
"directory after cdablevar" and "local directory" are the same directory
anyway.

Peter

сре, 11. авг 2021. у 22:03 Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@gmail.com> је
написао/ла:

> 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.
>>
>