Re: How to turn off Mac OS X Network share completion?

[Gabriel Gilder <gabriel.gilder@gmail.com>]

After a lot of banging my head against the wall, I figured out my problem, so I figured I'd post it here for anyone experiencing similar issues.

I included this line in my configuration:

zstyle ':completion:*' users ''

And now, mercifully, no user directories are used for completion. Whew!

-Gabriel


On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Gabriel Gilder wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've just switched to zsh from bash so apologies if this is a total newbie question. I've searched the list and done quite a bit of Googling but couldn't find a solution.
> 
> I'm often on a VPN for my company, and when I'm on the VPN a number of servers appear in Mac OS X's "/Network/Servers" path. The problem is that zsh tries to complete across these directories, so when I type, for instance, "cd adam<TAB>", the shell freezes up for about a minute while it searches across the network, and then I get a menu of usernames like so:
> 
> adam0        adam1     adam2     adam3        adam4       adam5   
> 
> (Actual names redacted.)
> 
> Then if I run "cd adam0" I'm taken to something like "/Network/Servers/example.com/Volumes/misc/adam0".
> 
> This seems to be the default behavior if I have these lines in my .zshrc:
> 
> autoload -U compinit
> compinit
> 
> Is there a flag to turn off this type of completion across network shares?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
> 
> -Gabriel
> 
>