Odd behavior with ZLS_COLORS

Odd behavior with ZLS_COLORS

[John Cooper]

[ZSH_VERSION is 4.0.1-pre-2]

I have `zmodload zsh/complist' in my .zshrc file, but after attempting
completion, my ZLS_COLORS variable seems to get cleared:

  % ZLS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS
  % echo $ZLS_COLORS
  di=1;31:ex=1;32:*.dll=1;32:*.java=1;33:*.c=1;33:*.html=1;33:*.htm=1;33:*.el=1;35:*.zip=1;35:*.gz=1;35:*.tar=1;35:*.jar=1;35:*.cab=1;35
  % ls apacheTAB
  ApacheJServ-1.1.2/  apache_1.3.14/    
  % echo $ZLS_COLORS

  %

Oddly, the coloring of file names is identical to what I get with GNU `ls' with
the sole exception that zsh completion gives me directories in blue, but ls
shows them in red!

I've discovered (from the docs) that the following zstyle incantation causes
the zsh completions to exactly match my ls completions (including red
directories), but I thought I'd mention the red/blue strangeness anyway, as I'm
curious if there's an obvious explanation.

  zstyle ':completion:*:default' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}

    --- John

Re: Odd behavior with ZLS_COLORS

[Peter Stephenson]

> I have `zmodload zsh/complist' in my .zshrc file, but after attempting
> completion, my ZLS_COLORS variable seems to get cleared:

That's actually documented, somewhere; it's certainly mentioned in the
guide (http://sunsite.dk/zsh/Guide/ chapter 6, section 6.5.2).  Using the
list-colors style as you do later is the correct thing to do.

As for the colour scheme, only our Berlin department is equipped to respond
to such queries...

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070

Re: Odd behavior with ZLS_COLORS

[Sven Wischnowsky]

John Cooper wrote:

> [ZSH_VERSION is 4.0.1-pre-2]
> 
> I have `zmodload zsh/complist' in my .zshrc file, but after attempting
> completion, my ZLS_COLORS variable seems to get cleared:
> 
>   % ZLS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS
>   % echo $ZLS_COLORS
>   di=1;31:ex=1;32:*.dll=1;32:*.java=1;33:*.c=1;33:*.html=1;33:*.htm=1;33:*.el=1;35:*.zip=1;35:*.gz=1;35:*.tar=1;35:*.jar=1;35:*.cab=1;35
>   % ls apacheTAB
>   ApacheJServ-1.1.2/  apache_1.3.14/    
>   % echo $ZLS_COLORS
> 
>   %
> 
> Oddly, the coloring of file names is identical to what I get with GNU `ls' with
> the sole exception that zsh completion gives me directories in blue, but ls
> shows them in red!

The obvious explanation is that somehow I got the builtin default
(hard-coded into complist.c -- ZLS_COLORS is set (i.e., in this case,
cleared) from the list-color style before the code that uses
$ZLS_COLORS) wrong.  And I love separating single words from the rest
of the sentence by long and nested parentheses.

Bye
 Sven

Index: Src/Zle/complist.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/Zle/complist.c,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.39 complist.c
--- Src/Zle/complist.c	2001/01/18 14:41:40	1.39
+++ Src/Zle/complist.c	2001/03/15 09:42:15
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 /* Default values. */
 
 static char *defcols[] = {
-    "0", "0", "1;34", "1;36", "33", "1;35", "1;33", "1;33", "1;32", NULL,
+    "0", "0", "1;31", "1;36", "33", "1;35", "1;33", "1;33", "1;32", NULL,
     "\033[", "m", NULL, "0", "0", "7", "0", "0"
 };
 

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de