* autocomplete in program
@ 2018-01-08 23:56 Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 0:30 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-01-08 23:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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?
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* Re: autocomplete in program
2018-01-08 23:56 autocomplete in program Emanuel Berg
@ 2018-01-09 0:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 0:40 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-01-09 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
YT 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) )
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2018-01-09 0:30 ` Emanuel Berg
@ 2018-01-09 0:40 ` Bart Schaefer
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 2018-01-09 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh Users
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.
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