I solved this by writing a small script that listed the main directories
and converted them to an abbreviated form.

I feed the abbreviated list to compctl -k, and then I also added a
"converter" which takes the abbreviated form and converts it back to the
full path, which I use in my command.



On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>
wrote:

> My IRC bouncer (ZNC), writes out IRC logs into directories that look like
> this:
>
> /path/network1/#channel1
> /path/network1/##channel2
> /path/network1/user1
> /path/network2/#channel3
> /path/network2/##channel4
> /path/network2/user2
>
> I would like compctl to autocomplete for me with these options:
>
> channel1 channel2 user1 channel3 channel4 user2
>
> But, when I choose channel1 or whatever, it should return the full real
> path (/path/network1/#channel1)
>
> How can I do this?
>
>
>