* cd - not expanding to dirs
@ 2012-11-19 17:43 zzapper
2012-11-19 21:35 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: zzapper @ 2012-11-19 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hi
(posting to new thread as I cant see the old thread for some reason)
[root@isx01linux03]/var# dirs
/var /etc /var/www/html ~
autopushd is set
but
cd -<tab> does not expand to dirs
zsh 4.2.6 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
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zzapper
http://zzapper.co.uk/ Technical Tips
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* Re: cd - not expanding to dirs
2012-11-19 17:43 cd - not expanding to dirs zzapper
@ 2012-11-19 21:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-11-19 22:05 ` zzapper
2012-11-20 13:46 ` zzapper
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2012-11-19 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Nov 19, 5:43pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} [root@isx01linux03]/var# dirs
} /var /etc /var/www/html ~
}
} autopushd is set
}
} but
}
} cd -<tab> does not expand to dirs
}
} zsh 4.2.6 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Are you sure you've run "compinit" ?
CentOS 5.x (i386 but that shouldn't matter):
[schaefer@pip2]~% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.2.6
[schaefer@pip2]/var/www/htdocs% dirs
/var/www/htdocs /etc /var ~
[schaefer@pip2]/var/www/htdocs% setopt autopushd
[schaefer@pip2]/var/www/htdocs% cd -<TAB>
0 -- /home/schaefer
1 -- /var
2 -- /etc
(Actually autopushd is irrelevant to the completion.)
I see you're running a root shell -- perhaps compaudit objected to
something and didn't load the completions, or perhaps the zsh/parameter
module is not loaded?
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* Re: cd - not expanding to dirs
2012-11-19 21:35 ` Bart Schaefer
@ 2012-11-19 22:05 ` zzapper
2012-11-20 3:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-11-20 13:46 ` zzapper
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: zzapper @ 2012-11-19 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Bart Schaefer wrote in news:121119133528.ZM4445@torch.brasslantern.com:
> On Nov 19, 5:43pm, zzapper wrote:
> }
> } [root@isx01linux03]/var# dirs
> } /var /etc /var/www/html ~
> }
> } autopushd is set
> }
> } but
> }
> } cd -<tab> does not expand to dirs
> }
> } zsh 4.2.6 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
>
> Are you sure you've run "compinit" ?
>
> (Actually autopushd is irrelevant to the completion.)
>
> I see you're running a root shell -- perhaps compaudit objected to
> something and didn't load the completions, or perhaps the zsh/parameter
> module is not loaded?
>
Bart
Thanks -How embarrassing, because it's only a remote server I haven't
bothered with a full setup - hence no compinit.
But how should I have known that "cd -" depended on this ? How should I have
approached searching the doc?
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zzapper
http://zzapper.co.uk/ Technical Tips
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* Re: cd - not expanding to dirs
2012-11-19 22:05 ` zzapper
@ 2012-11-20 3:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-11-20 13:50 ` zzapper
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2012-11-20 3:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Nov 19, 10:05pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} But how should I have known that "cd -" depended on [compinit] ?
Osmosis?
More seriously, attempting to answer this question (and similar ones about
how to introduce novice users to the zsh feature set) is what led to the
creation of the zsh/newuser module and zsh-newuser-install function.
Ideally the first time you ran the shell you should have been prompted by
the newuser subsystem to initialize completion and various other setup.
If you aren't the first root user, or the OS packager includes a default
setup for root, then you miss out on this.
} How should I have approached searching the doc?
In this case it's less how you should have approached searching it than
how you should have approached browsing it.
The third section of the documentation is entitled "Roadmap". There is
a subsection therein called "Completion". The second paragraph of that
section says:
Zsh has two completion systems, an old, so called compctl completion
(named after the builtin command that serves as its complete and only
user interface), and a new one, referred to as compsys, organized as
library of builtin and user-defined functions. The two systems differ
in their interface for specifying the completion behavior. The new
system is more customizable and is supplied with completions for many
commonly used commands; it is therefore to be preferred.
The completion system must be enabled explicitly when the shell starts.
For more information see Completion System.
Those last two words are a link to the twentieth (!) section, which
rambles a bit about contexts and styles and dispatchers, and then moves
on with a section "Initialization" which explains compinit.
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* Re: cd - not expanding to dirs
2012-11-19 21:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-11-19 22:05 ` zzapper
@ 2012-11-20 13:46 ` zzapper
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: zzapper @ 2012-11-20 13:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
>
> (Actually autopushd is irrelevant to the completion.)
>
>
I needed both:-
autoload compinit
setopt autopushd
to be able to use cd -<tab> and cp ~+<tab>
(remember to visit a few directories before using it of course)
--
zzapper
http://zzapper.co.uk/ Technical Tips
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