From: Alan <8fvebtoeq87@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Prevent auto complete of non-executable files in path
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 21:15:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL7A0-OS6fPs_Mb0g648yaG70mhcFgT7ueBAq6z5OTAqk=tyWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL7A0-NHn9afpn7eZ-2gUkOLGC7b9T6wBFkPVj+x9P_Nvm01YA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you Dave, that worked great!
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:53 PM Alan <8fvebtoeq87@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm switching from bash to zsh (using version 5.8), and one thing that
> bothers me is that zsh auto completes non-executable files in my $PATH.
>
> For example:
>
> $ echo $PATH
> ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
> $ ls -l ~/bin/
> -rwx------ 1 user staff 95 Jun 5 2019 asdf1
> -rw------- 1 user staff 95 Jun 5 2019 asdf1~
> -rwx------ 1 user staff 95 Jun 5 2019 asdf2
> -rw------- 1 user staff 95 Jun 5 2019 asdf3
> $ asd<TAB>
> external command
> asdf1
> asdf1\~
> asdf2
> asdf3
>
> ...whereas in bash, it would only auto complete asdf1 and asdf2 because
> those are the only 2 files in ~/bin/ that are executable:
>
> $ asd<TAB>
> asdf1
> asdf2
>
> How can I get zsh to only auto complete executable files in the $PATH?
>
> Thanks for your help, much appreciated!
>
>
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2020-05-27 16:53 ` Alan
2020-05-27 19:25 ` Dave Wood
2020-05-28 1:15 ` Alan [this message]
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