bash-like completion?

bash-like completion?

[Karsten Thygesen]

Hi

How can I make zsh filename-complete something after a string? Ie:

./configure --prefix=/usr/loc<COMPLETE>


Bash handles this just fine pr. default, but I can't fingure out how
to make zsh do the same?

This is the single reason, that zsh is not my default shell yet...

Best,
Karsten

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Re: bash-like completion?

[Andrew Main]

Karsten Thygesen wrote:
>./configure --prefix=/usr/loc<COMPLETE>

compctl -x 's[--prefix=][--exec-prefix=][--bindir=]' -f - \
	's[]' -k '(--prefix --exec-prefix --bindir)' -Q -S '=' -- configure

Add prefixes as desired.  We should probably put a fuller version of this
into the distribution.

-zefram

Re: bash-like completion?

[Wessel Dankers]

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Andrew Main wrote:

> Karsten Thygesen wrote:
> >./configure --prefix=/usr/loc<COMPLETE>
> 
> compctl -x 's[--prefix=][--exec-prefix=][--bindir=]' -f - \
> 	's[]' -k '(--prefix --exec-prefix --bindir)' -Q -S '=' -- configure
> 
> Add prefixes as desired.  We should probably put a fuller version of this
> into the distribution.

Is it possible to do this in a global manner? Using compctl or setopt, but
not just for specific commands.

And what about an easier way to affect completion after command line flags?
All this compctl gibberish is very nice, but hardly user friendly. I'm
getting a bit tired to man zshcompctl all the time. Perhaps a gnucomp
builtin/function? That would make it easier to change the completion
behaviour for commands which use standard GNU-style options.

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Re: bash-like completion?

[Andrew Main]

Wessel Dankers wrote:
>Is it possible to do this in a global manner? Using compctl or setopt, but
>not just for specific commands.

setopt MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST would probably do what you want.

>And what about an easier way to affect completion after command line flags?
>All this compctl gibberish is very nice, but hardly user friendly. I'm
>getting a bit tired to man zshcompctl all the time.

It's been discussed, but won't happen for a while yet.

-zefram

Re: bash-like completion?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 26,  2:32pm, Andrew Main wrote:
} Subject: Re: bash-like completion?
}
} Wessel Dankers wrote:
} >Is it possible to do this in a global manner? Using compctl or setopt, but
} >not just for specific commands.
} 
} setopt MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST would probably do what you want.

I thought so, too, but it doesn't ... it applies only to globbing, not to
completion.


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Re: bash-like completion?

[Bruce Stephens]

wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl said:
> Is it possible to do this in a global manner? Using compctl or 
> setopt, but not just for specific commands.

> And what about an easier way to affect completion after command line 
> flags? All this compctl gibberish is very nice, but hardly user 
> friendly. I'm getting a bit tired to man zshcompctl all the time. 
> Perhaps a gnucomp builtin/function? That would make it easier to 
> change the completion behaviour for commands which use standard 
> GNU-style options. 

Yeah, this would be nice.  Presumably this is kind of related to the EQUALS 
option, but for completion.  Also, for these particular options, then the 
brand new -/ flag is better than the -f flag, since these are all supposed to 
be directories.  (Or it will be, once everybody has a zsh which supports "-/".)

This would be nice for commands like make, too, where make variable 
assignments are often filenames (not necessarily directory names, though).  Or 
can this be done easily already?

Re: bash-like completion?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 26,  3:03pm, Bruce Stephens wrote:
} Subject: Re: bash-like completion?
}
} wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl said:
} > Is it possible to do this in a global manner? Using compctl or 
} > setopt, but not just for specific commands.
} 
} Yeah, this would be nice.  Presumably this is kind of related to the EQUALS 
} option, but for completion.
} 
} This would be nice for commands like make, too, where make variable 
} assignments are often filenames (not necessarily directory names, though).
} Or  can this be done easily already?

How about this:

	compctl -Tx 'N[1,=]' -f

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Re: bash-like completion?

[Matthew Lovell]

On 26 September 1997, Karsten Thygesen writes:
 > 
 > Hi
 > 
 > How can I make zsh filename-complete something after a string? Ie:
 > 
 > ./configure --prefix=/usr/loc<COMPLETE>

I use this to get completion on "export" commands:


 # if asked to complete export ..., use files and directories after the =
 # and existing shell variables before the =
 compctl -E -S '=' -x 'n[1,=]' -f -- export    



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