From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: autocomplete in program
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:40:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ag3bbKBNvEFaRj7XEjEBcoM_KMHw0pT4SofdX09yiAEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k1wrrhza.fsf@zoho.com>
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
>
>> If I send an incomplete filename to
>> a function, and then do the [[ -f $file ]]
>> test to determine if it is a file, and if it
>> isn't, can I programmatically do the
>> equivalent of interactive TAB, and if this
>> yields and unambiguous filename, use
>> that instead?
>
> I got help on #zsh on irc.freenode.net:
>
> matches=( ${file}*(N) )
>
You can also use approximate matching:
setopt extendedglob
matches=( (#a3)${file}(N) )
Here 3 means up to 3 characters in $file may be wrong or missing.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-08 23:56 Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 0:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 0:40 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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