Re: Completion does not work with hidden files/directories

["François RONVAUX" <francois.ronvaux@gmail.com>]

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Oliver,

Thank you for your reply.

Le dim. 30 mai 2021 à 14:53, Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org> a écrit :

> Fran?ois RONVAUX wrote:
> > In my home directory, there are currently only hidden files/directories
> and the
> > completion mechanism does not see them :-(
>
> The main way to control which files are included in file completion is
> via the file-patterns style. So if you always want to see hidden files,
> it would be something like:
>
>   zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns '%p(D):globbed-files
> *(D-/):directories' '*(D):all-files'
>
> (D) is a glob qualifier that includes hidden files and you might use it
> from the command-line as, e.g. *.png(D)
>
> I was going to suggest something like the following which adds the (D)
> to the all-files fallback:
>
>   zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns '%p:globbed-files
> *(-/):directories' '*(D):all-files'
>
> Unfortunately, _files has some sort of shortcut where it does:
>
>   [[ "$pat" = '*' ]] && return ret
>
> So it never tried all-files if globbed-files was using * as a glob. This
> should perhaps be looked into and discussed on -workers.
>
> What you can do, however is add a second run of the _complete completer
> with the separate file-patterns style:
>
>   zstyle ':completion:*::::' completer _complete _complete:-hidden
>   zstyle ':completion:*:complete-hidden:*' file-patterns
> '%p(D):globbed-files' '*(D):all-files'
>
> Note, however that you likely already have a completer style with other
> functions like _expand listed and you should only add _complete:-hidden
> to the list somewhere after _complete.
>
> > Same issue when I want to change of directory :
>
> cd doesn't use files so file-patterns may not help there.
>
> > zstyle ':completion:*' cache-path ${ZDOTDIR}/zsh_cache
> > zstyle ':completion:*' use-cache true #on
>
> > Second issue (less important) : the section "Create a cache" in the
> above file
> > does not work.
>
> Only some completion functions need to create a cache. Note that those
> lines do not create a cache, they only tell completion where to put cache
> files. Is ${ZDOTDIR} definitely set to something. If not, it could be
> trying /zsh_cache. The directory you specify should already exist and
> should be a writable directory.
>
> Oliver
>

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