Re: another (hopefully simple) completion question

[William Scott <wgscott@chemistry.ucsc.edu>]

Dear Peter:

Sorry to put you through this.  Not only do I have the book, I had
highlighted the section.  Oops.

But thanks!

Bill



On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> William Scott wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to complete with the sort order governed by
> > most recently touched file first (the order ls -t produces) rather
> > than the conventional order?  Ideally I'd like to bind it to ctl-tab
> > or some such key combo and retain the normal completion option with tab.
>
> Yes, you can do this very flexibly just using styles.  The following is
> the solution explained by Oliver in From Bash to Z Shell (Apress, ISBN
> 1-59059-376-6), page 407.  The _generic widget is really just a hook so
> you can hang a special name on it, using styles to make it do something
> different from normal completion.
>
> # Use menu completion to cycle through files.
> zle -C most-recent-file menu-complete _generic
> # Use file completion, but add the _match completer so
> # glob patterns can be used.
> zstyle 'completion:most-recent-file::::' completer _menu _files _match
> # Use the file-sort style to sort in modification time order.
> zstyle ':completion:most-recent-file:*' file-sort modification
> # We don't want to see the list of matches, just the results.
> zstyle ':completion:most-recent-file:*' hidden all
> # Optionally, restrict matches to regular files
> zstyle ':completion:most-recent-file:*' file-patterns '*(.):normal\ files'
> # Bind the widget.
> bindkey '^X.' most-recent-file
>
> --
> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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>