Re: cd directory completion?

Re: cd directory completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Dominik Vogt wrote:

> I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
> symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
> a way to do this without writing a completion function?
> (And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
> there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
> find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
> possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
> can send it to me?

The simplest solution: compctl -/ cd

For more, see the `compctl-examples' file or the examples at
http://www.zsh.org.


Bye
 Sven


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Re: cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:26:11PM +0200, wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de wrote:
> 
> Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
> > symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
> > a way to do this without writing a completion function?
> > (And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
> > there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
> > find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
> > possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
> > can send it to me?
> 
> The simplest solution: compctl -/ cd

Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
3.0.6:

  # compctl -/ cd
  compctl: bad option: -/

I'll settle for

  compctl -n -g '*(-/) .*(-/) cd pushd

instead. Many thanks

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Swen Thuemmler]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
> 3.0.6:
> 
>   # compctl -/ cd
>   compctl: bad option: -/
> 
> I'll settle for
> 
>   compctl -n -g '*(-/) .*(-/) cd pushd
> 
> instead. Many thanks

Hmm. I don't know if it does in 3.0.6, but in 3.1.5, this does not
complete .., so you always have to add the '/' if you want to cd
../something. I use the following:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '..' + -g '.*(-/)' cd chdir dirs pushd

Greetings, Swen

Re: cd directory completion?

[Bek Oberin]

Dominik Vogt wrote:
> configs end up the same :-) But I wonder why you use whence
> and where at all (do you?). It's so much easier to just type
>   # ls =filename
> and hit TAB :-))

Wow, I never heard of that one!  Thanks :)


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Re: cd directory completion?

[Sweth Chandramouli]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:07:16PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> Looks pretty much like the stuff I use. In the end all compctl
> configs end up the same :-) But I wonder why you use whence
> and where at all (do you?). It's so much easier to just type
> 
>   # ls =filename
> 
> and hit TAB :-))

	yes, but that returns totally different information, especially in
zsh, where which and type are just cosmetic variants of whence--all three
thus go through the entire process of command lookup, including functions
and builtins.  the =<command> syntax just does alias expansion and 
executable searching via path, while (k/c)sh-style which just does executable
searching; these two also thus do not provide any information about whether 
some command is a function or a builtin, and don't expand aliases/functions/
builtins so that you can quickly see their definition without looking at
source files, etc.

	(i personally think the zsh versions of those commands should mirror 
the equivalent ksh tools in behaviour (it's sometimes very useful to only
do executable searching, for example), but since /bin/which and /bin/type
exist and act like the ksh versions, i've just aliased which and type to 
their executable versions.  (of course, then you have issues figuring out
just what `alias which=/bin/which ; alias which=$(whence -a which | head -1)' 
does, but that's what makes playing with your shell fun.))

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:35:51PM +1000, ozone@ihug.com.au wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
> > symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
> > a way to do this without writing a completion function?
> > (And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
> > there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
> > find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
> > possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
> > can send it to me?
> 
>     I dunno if this is any 'good' (from a technical zsh perspective), but
> here's mine for 3.1.5.  May (not) work on 3.0.6.  Also have provided other
                              ^^^^^

*does* work on 3.0.6.

> (really) simple ones which I've used.
> 
> compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd    # what you want
> compctl -g '*(/) .*(/)' rmdir
> compctl -j -P % kill
> compctl -j -P % fg
> compctl -j -P % bg
> compctl -u w
> compctl -m whence
> compctl -c which
> compctl -c man
> compctl -u who

Looks pretty much like the stuff I use. In the end all compctl
configs end up the same :-) But I wonder why you use whence
and where at all (do you?). It's so much easier to just type

  # ls =filename

and hit TAB :-))

I'm especially fond of my man page completion.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Re: cd directory completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Dominik Vogt wrote:

> Um, I think that's not the correct syntax, at least not for
> 3.0.6:
> 
>   # compctl -/ cd
>   compctl: bad option: -/

Oops, I though that got added to 3.0.6, too. Sorry.

Bye
 Sven


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Re: cd directory completion?

[Andre Pang]

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
> symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
> a way to do this without writing a completion function?
> (And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
> there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
> find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
> possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
> can send it to me?

    I dunno if this is any 'good' (from a technical zsh perspective), but
here's mine for 3.1.5.  May (not) work on 3.0.6.  Also have provided other
(really) simple ones which I've used.

compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd    # what you want
compctl -g '*(/) .*(/)' rmdir
compctl -j -P % kill
compctl -j -P % fg
compctl -j -P % bg
compctl -u w
compctl -m whence
compctl -c which
compctl -c man
compctl -u who

    Flame away if any of them suck :).


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Re: cd directory completion?

[John Riddoch]

>I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
>symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
>a way to do this without writing a completion function?
>(And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
>there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
>find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
>possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
>can send it to me?

I have:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' -v cd pushd rmdir
in my .zshrc file and it works fine for me, completing between dirs and 
symlinks to dirs and ignoring files.  I think I got it from www.dotfiles.com

>P.S.: please CC me on replies, I'm not on the list.

Well, you probably should be...

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cd directory completion?

[Dominik Vogt]

I'd like to have cd complete directory names as well as
symlinks that point to directories (zsh-3.0.6). Is there
a way to do this without writing a completion function?
(And I don't want to fiddle with any 'chase symlink' setting
there may be - I like them the way they are).  I couldn't
find anything appropriate in the man page. If it's not
possible without a function, has anybody written one and 
can send it to me?

Bye

Dominik ^_^

P.S.: please CC me on replies, I'm not on the list.

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phone: 07031/14-4596, fax: 07031/14-3883, dominik_vogt@hp.com