Re: Don't append slash when auto completing a symbolic link pointing to a directory

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 5/28/20, Alan <8fvebtoeq87@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm switching from bash to zsh and prefer bash's default behavior of not
> appending a slash when auto completing a symbolic link pointing to a
> directory.
>
> For example:
> $ mkdir directory
> $ ln -s directory symblink
> $ ls sym<TAB>
>
> At this point, in bash, you would get:
> $ ls symblink
>
> In zsh, I'm getting:
> $ ls symblink/
>
> Also, in bash, hitting a <TAB> when the full symbolic link is already
> present would then append the slash to the symbolic link:
> $ ls symblink<TAB>
> $ ls symblink/
>
> Is there anyway to get this behavior with zsh? I looked through "man
> zshoptions" this time and couldn't find anything specific to this.

If it makes you feel better, hitting enter will remove the / and just
run "ls symblink". (Although this makes no difference to ls unless you
also give -l). The / is just inserted temporarily in case you want to
continue typing/completing things inside the directory, but a space,
enter or movement etc will remove it again. This should be indicated
by a bold/standout font.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson