open file with tex extension

open file with tex extension

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi,

I configured zsh using a couple of config files which I
found in the net, which works fine, but the drawback is that
I don't understand everything...
I like a lot the feature, that when using xpdf and acroread
the completion just displays pdf files. 

A similar feature I could use in a directory with latex
files. Once you translated a latex file you have additional
files with the same name, but different extension.
Now, I look for a way to adjust the completion so that when
I type the name of the latex file zsh completes the
extension to '.tex' and does not give any other options
like:

  `--> vim sample.aux
  completing file
  sample.aux    sample.idx    sample.out    sample.rel    sample.tex\~              
  sample.dvi    sample.log    sample.pdf    sample.tex 

Is that somehow possible?

Greetings!
 Fabian

Re: open file with tex extension

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Frank,

* Frank Terbeck <frank.terbeck@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
> [...]
>> A similar feature I could use in a directory with latex
>> files. Once you translated a latex file you have additional
>> files with the same name, but different extension.
>> Now, I look for a way to adjust the completion so that when
>> I type the name of the latex file zsh completes the
>> extension to '.tex' and does not give any other options
>> like:
>> 
>>   `--> vim sample.aux
>>   completing file
>>   sample.aux    sample.idx    sample.out    sample.rel    sample.tex\~              
>>   sample.dvi    sample.log    sample.pdf    sample.tex 
>> 
>> Is that somehow possible?
>
> you can ignore certain patterns for completion:
>
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns \
>           '*?.(aux|dvi|log|idx|pdf|rel|out)'
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns '*~'

Thanks for the quick reply! 
It just works without the second completion, otherwise the
old completion is 'overwritten'. Thanks!
Is it possible to ignore directories with the same name?

Greetings!
 Fabian

Re: open file with tex extension

[Frank Terbeck]

Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
> A similar feature I could use in a directory with latex
> files. Once you translated a latex file you have additional
> files with the same name, but different extension.
> Now, I look for a way to adjust the completion so that when
> I type the name of the latex file zsh completes the
> extension to '.tex' and does not give any other options
> like:
> 
>   `--> vim sample.aux
>   completing file
>   sample.aux    sample.idx    sample.out    sample.rel    sample.tex\~              
>   sample.dvi    sample.log    sample.pdf    sample.tex 
> 
> Is that somehow possible?

you can ignore certain patterns for completion:

zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns \
          '*?.(aux|dvi|log|idx|pdf|rel|out)'
zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns '*~'

Regards, Frank

Re: open file with tex extension

[Jean Chalard]

> > Now, I look for a way to adjust the completion so that when
> > I type the name of the latex file zsh completes the
> > extension to '.tex' and does not give any other options
> > like:
> > [example]
> > Is that somehow possible?
>
> you can ignore certain patterns for completion:
>
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns \
>           '*?.(aux|dvi|log|idx|pdf|rel|out)'
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns '*~'

A possibly better solution would  be to complete on the tex file
first, but would still complete on the other files if there is no
other completion :
zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' file-patterns '*.tex' '*'

...that way, if there is a tex file and you hit tab, zsh will complete
on the tex file even if there are other acceptable completions.


It's also possible, and probably even better, to complete first on
whatever is not one of the outputs of latex, while retaining the
completion on them failing that.
zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' file-patterns
'*~*.(aux|dvi|log|idx|pdf|rel|out)' '*'

--
J
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