How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[zzapper]

Hi

cd aa<tab>

aaa/ aab/ aac/


I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing


I do this by manually deleting and then retyping the trailing slash.

But I guess there is an official way to do this?

zzapper

Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[Jérémie Roquet]

Hi zzapper,

Le ven. 22 avr. 2022 à 11:16, zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk> a écrit :
> $ cd aa<tab>
> aaa/ aab/ aac/
>
> I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing

Just typing <tab> (once for aaa/, twice for aab/, etc.) then slash is enough:

  https://asciinema.org/a/qF9oeQVjENjhKxOvgUyGg2zQo

Best regards,

-- 
Jérémie

Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[zzapper]

On 22/04/2022 10:46, Jérémie Roquet wrote:
>
> Just typing <tab> (once for aaa/, twice for aab/, etc.) then slash is enough:
>
>    https://asciinema.org/a/qF9oeQVjENjhKxOvgUyGg2zQo
>
> Best regards,
>

Jérémie , yes i like that (BTW your asciinema is in too small a font)

Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 4/22/22, zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> cd aa<tab>
>
> aaa/ aab/ aac/
>
>
> I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing
>
>
> I do this by manually deleting and then retyping the trailing slash.
>
> But I guess there is an official way to do this?

If you press a key bound to accept-and-infer-next-history during menu
selection, then it will be accepted and menu selection will be
automatically started again. There is no such key bound by default but
you can do
bindkey -M menuselect whateverkey accept-and-infer-next-history

manpage entry:
accept-and-infer-next-history
 accepts  the  current match and then tries completion with menu selec‐
 tion again;  in the case of files this allows one to select  a  direc‐
 tory and immediately attempt to complete files in it;  if there are no
 matches, a message is shown and one can use undo to go back to comple‐
 tion  on  the  previous  level,  every other key leaves menu selection
 (including the other zle functions which are otherwise special  during
 menu selection)


relatedly, accept-and-hold (or accept-and-menu-complete, they do the
same thing here) is also useful:
accept-and-hold, accept-and-menu-complete
 accept the currently inserted match and continue selection allowing to
 select the next match to insert into the line

If you press this while several levels deep, you will insert one of
the matches to the command line, and stay in the same directory in
menu selection so you don't have to navigate back there to insert the
next file you want (or slightly more optimally, copy-earlier-word and
erase to last slash)

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[zzapper]

On 22/04/2022 12:05, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 4/22/22, zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> cd aa<tab>
>>
>> aaa/ aab/ aac/
>>
>>
>> I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing
>>
>>
>> I do this by manually deleting and then retyping the trailing slash.
>>
>> But I guess there is an official way to do this?
> If you press a key bound to accept-and-infer-next-history during menu
> selection, then it will be accepted and menu selection will be
> automatically started again. There is no such key bound by default but
> you can do
> bindkey -M menuselect whateverkey accept-and-infer-next-history
>
> manpage entry:
> accept-and-infer-next-history
>   accepts  the  current match and then tries completion with menu selec‐
>   tion again;  in the case of files this allows one to select  a  direc‐
>   tory and immediately attempt to complete files in it;  if there are no
>   matches, a message is shown and one can use undo to go back to comple‐
>   tion  on  the  previous  level,  every other key leaves menu selection
>   (including the other zle functions which are otherwise special  during
>   menu selection)
>
>
> relatedly, accept-and-hold (or accept-and-menu-complete, they do the
> same thing here) is also useful:
> accept-and-hold, accept-and-menu-complete
>   accept the currently inserted match and continue selection allowing to
>   select the next match to insert into the line
>
> If you press this while several levels deep, you will insert one of
> the matches to the command line, and stay in the same directory in
> menu selection so you don't have to navigate back there to insert the
> next file you want (or slightly more optimally, copy-earlier-word and
> erase to last slash)
>
MM thanks for the detailed reply

Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[zzapper]

On 22/04/2022 10:15, zzapper wrote:
> Hi
>
> cd aa<tab>
>
> aaa/ aab/ aac/
>
>
> I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing
>
>
> I do this by manually deleting and then retyping the trailing slash.
>
> But I guess there is an official way to do this?
>
> zzapper
>
Have I totally foobar-ed here????

Doesn't simple hitting 'return' do what I want  e.g. accept that 
directory and then allow me carry on completing??


zzapper