hello Arturo, thanks for your suggestions, I will try and let you know best Il giorno mar 19 giu 2018 alle ore 00:12 Arturo Escaip < arturoescaip@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hey Pier, > > I’m not very knowledgeable about styles, but I think you may have the > context pattern wrong. You can use C-x h to see the context at any point > when writing a command and you can use that output as a guide when building > a pattern for a style. For example, I have a command that I wrote that is > called pb and this is the output I get when I do C-x h right after typing > pb: > > ~% pb > tags in context :completion::complete:pb:: > argument-1 options (_arguments _pb (eval)) > > The full context is :completion::complete:pb::, I think in your call to > zstyle you are missing the last two colons, so what if you try: > > zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:my_command:*' max-errors 0 > > You don’t need the -e option because you don’t need 0 to be evaluated. > ​ > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:41 PM Pier Paolo Grassi > wrote: > >> Hello everybody, I must confess I don't have a clue when it comes to >> configure completion styles. I made various attempts but for now, I don't >> seem to grasp the syntax of ztyle. >> I have in my .zshrc (blindly copied years ago from who knows where): >> >> zstyle -e ':completion:*:approximate:*' max-errors \ >> 'reply=( $(( ($#PREFIX+$#SUFFIX)/3 )) numeric )' >> >> that, as I understand, enables approximate match for all the commands when >> trying completion for a number of errors proportional to the number of >> characters of the word to be completed etc. >> >> I would like to disable this completion for a command that has a completer >> function I wrote that pass to compadd various values, since these are so >> many that the completion is very slow to show matches. So I thought that >> maybe disabling the approximate match for this command would speed things >> up. >> >> My best bet doing this was: >> zstyle -e ':completion:*:approximate:my_command' max-errors 0 >> >> but this does not work. I tried also various variants to no success. >> Can someone shed some light on this please? >> >> -- >> Pier Paolo Grassi >> email: pierpaolog@gmail.com >> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217 >> founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO >> > -- Pier Paolo Grassi email: pierpaolog@gmail.com linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217 founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO