zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

[zzapper]

Hi
Today I meant to  type

ls mainf<tab> to complete mainfile.php

and instead mistyped

ls ainf<tab> and to my surprise it completed correctly to mainfile.php

I've always expected to do say

ls *ainf<tab> 

So is forward completion standard with compinit or do you need flags set etc?

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Re: zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

[Frank Terbeck]

zzapper wrote:
[...]
> ls ainf<tab> and to my surprise it completed correctly to mainfile.php
[...]
> So is forward completion standard with compinit or do you need flags set etc?

I guess you're using the _approximate (or maybe _correct) completer with
some sort of `max-errors' style set.

Regards, Frank

Re: zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

[zzapper]

Frank Terbeck wrote in news:87a9zzq8gy.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org:

> zzapper wrote:
> [...]
>> ls ainf<tab> and to my surprise it completed correctly to mainfile.php
> [...]
>> So is forward completion standard with compinit or do you need flags
>> set etc? 
> 
> I guess you're using the _approximate (or maybe _correct) completer with
> some sort of `max-errors' style set.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> 

I have

autoload -U compinit
compinit
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' \
    'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*'

zle -C expand-args-of complete-word _generic
zstyle ':completion:expand-args-of::::' completer expand-args-of


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Re: zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:26:52 +0000
zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
> Frank Terbeck wrote in news:87a9zzq8gy.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org:
> 
> > zzapper wrote:
> > [...]
> >> ls ainf<tab> and to my surprise it completed correctly to mainfile.php
> > [...]
> >> So is forward completion standard with compinit or do you need flags
> >> set etc? 
> > 
> > I guess you're using the _approximate (or maybe _correct) completer with
> > some sort of `max-errors' style set.
> > 
> > Regards, Frank
> > 
> 
> I have
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' \
>     'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*'

I think that matcher list might be putting "*"s in interesting places.

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Re: zsh forward completion (quite embarrassing)

[zzapper]

Peter Stephenson wrote in 
>> 
>> I have
>> 
>> zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' \
>>     'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*'
> 
> I think that matcher list might be putting "*"s in interesting places.
> 
I guess I outht to study:-

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-Widgets.html#Completion-
Matching-Control


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