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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:01:19 +0200
From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
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To: "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Completing a unique prefix of "script" completes "script"
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On 8/13/06, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> > On 8/10/06, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' 'r:|[.,_-]=**r:|=
> > **'
> >
> > What exactly are the 'r's doing here?
>
> That's become a bit garbled: the bit we're referring to should look like
>
> 'r:|[.,_-]=** r:|=**'

That's what I figured.

[excellent description of 'r' matcher-list operator]

Thanks!

> Quite why this forces a distinction between script as an executablle and
> script as a directory is one of the great mysteries of the modern world.

Hehe, it's bad when this comes from a lead developer...

  nikolai