From: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Multipart autocomplete, zstyle, and cd
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 19:28:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP9c5kvxy7AdWZLpit1McHefVBiB-+hPZpHLz4J2jErT_QbFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I would like to add a new autocomplete section to the tab-completion
of "cd". I have some of the pieces of this working, but haven't
figured out how to hook it up correctly.
#-------------------------------- BACKGROUND ---------------------------------
I have a zsh autoloadable function, zshz-cd-completion. Its
implementation is not relevant, except that it outputs a list of
directory names in a specific order.
For now, let's assume zsh-cd-completion emits the following lines:
Downloads/
bin/
Library/
Desktop/
#-------------------------------- COMPLETION ---------------------------------
I have completion working for a placeholder command, foobarbaz. This
is done with a file, _foobarbaz, also in $fpath. It is very
straightforward, and works as intended.
#compdef foobarbaz
_arguments \
'*: :->custom'
case "$state" in
custom)
local -a dirs=( $(zshz-cd-completion) )
# Old: Does not preserve ordering
# _values "popular directories" $dirs
_wanted -V popular-directories expl 'popular directories' \
compadd -Q -a dirs
;;
esac
#-------------------------- COMPLETION ENHANCEMENT ---------------------------
This completion works well, though I would like to know how to get the
completion to not do word-separated completion and upon e.g.
$ foobarbaz bi<tab>
Turns into...
$ foobarbaz bin/
... to not add a space, but instead allow further specification e.g.,
$ foobarbaz bin/subdir
#-------------------------- CURRENT CD AUTOCOMPLETE --------------------------
I would like to know how to get these results added to "cd"
autocompletion. I expect that I can do this from zstyle. Currently,
this is how things are configured:
$ zstyle -L | grep :cd:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:cd:*:directory-stack' menu yes select
zstyle ':completion:*:*:cd:*' tag-order local-directories
directory-stack path-directories
When I do "cd <tab>", I get a single section, "-- local directory --".
#-------------------------- ADDING A SECTION TO CD ---------------------------
I tried my very best to comprehend Section 20 "Completion System" of
the documentation, and various other distillations on Github and so on
-- but this is the most complex documentation I've come across, and
the various "magic" that powers it is too complex to read through.
Any pointers would be useful -- it's not clear if I need to define a
new tag somehow (via _tags?) or modify the _cd function and put my
modified copy earlier in $fpath. I hope / expect that this is
something that can be MOSTLY achieved via zstyle, but I'm not clear
how.
Zach Riggle
next reply other threads:[~2021-12-06 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-06 1:28 Zach Riggle [this message]
2021-12-06 4:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-12-06 8:53 ` zzapper
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