Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[zzapper]

Hi Y'All

Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*" and there
exists a file frederick.txt and a directory frederick ??

I guess it's becauses the FNG handling  fred* doesn't know that it's
output is to be passed to cd .

But can clever zsh be configued to avoid this behaviour.

Could I tell cd to ignore files ending say .html,.txt etc




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Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Peter Stephenson]

zzapper wrote:
> Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*" and there
> exists a file frederick.txt and a directory frederick ??
> 
> I guess it's becauses the FNG handling  fred* doesn't know that it's
> output is to be passed to cd .

It also doesn't know whether or not you want error checking.

> But can clever zsh be configued to avoid this behaviour.
> 
> Could I tell cd to ignore files ending say .html,.txt etc

Use a wrapper.  It's not 100% accurate in guessing what form of cd you
are using, but it will work the vast majority of the time.

cd() {
  local -a dirs
  local d
  for d in $*; do
    [[ -d $d ]] && dirs=($dirs $d)
  done
  if (( ${#dirs} == 1 )); then
    builtin cd $dirs
  else
    # Assume it's something like e.g. `cd SOURCE REPLACE'
    builtin cd "$@"
  fi
}

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Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[zzapper]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:37:54 +0000, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
wrote:

>Use a wrapper.  It's not 100% accurate in guessing what form of cd you
>are using, but it will work the vast majority of the time.
>
>cd() {
>  local -a dirs
>  local d
>  for d in $*; do
>    [[ -d $d ]] && dirs=($dirs $d)
>  done
>  if (( ${#dirs} == 1 )); then
>    builtin cd $dirs
>  else
>    # Assume it's something like e.g. `cd SOURCE REPLACE'
>    builtin cd "$@"
>  fi
>}

Yes tasty! ( I've called this cdd and left the builtin cd alone). (is
the keyword function optional?)

But are there any solutions using COMPCTRL?

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Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Oliver Kiddle]

zzapper wrote:

> Yes tasty! ( I've called this cdd and left the builtin cd alone). (is
> the keyword function optional?)
> 
> But are there any solutions using COMPCTRL?

Yes.

With old style completion, try the globcomplete option.

With new completion, you can use the _match completer. You can use it
in the main list of completers. That will cause all globs like "fred*"
to be matched against the completion matches.

I prefer _expand because it does proper filename generation, handling
globbing flags etc but I bind _match to a separate key. So if I was to
do `cd fred*' and then press escape *, it would just complete the
directory. I think this below is the relevant setup code I use. You may
want to adjust the first zstyle and do without the second.

bindkey '\e*' match-word
zstyle ':completion:match-word::::' completer _all_matches _match _ignored
zstyle ':completion:match-word:*' match-original both
zle -C match-word complete-word _generic

Oliver

Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[zzapper]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:54:38 +0100, Oliver Kiddle
<okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
So if I was to
>do `cd fred*' and then press escape *, it would just complete the
>directory. I think this below is the relevant setup code I use. You may
>want to adjust the first zstyle and do without the second.
>
>bindkey '\e*' match-word
>zstyle ':completion:match-word::::' completer _all_matches _match _ignored
>zstyle ':completion:match-word:*' match-original both
>zle -C match-word complete-word _generic

Oliver that works great but what is all that gobbledegook?


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Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Oliver Kiddle]

zzapper wrote:
> >
> >bindkey '\e*' match-word
> >zstyle ':completion:match-word::::' completer _all_matches _match _ignored
> >zstyle ':completion:match-word:*' match-original both
> >zle -C match-word complete-word _generic
> 
> Oliver that works great but what is all that gobbledegook?

It's not easy to explain that fully in a short e-mail.

Hopefully you're already familar with bindkey. It allows you to bind a
key or key combination to an editor command. This binds escape * to
`match-word'.

In addition to lots of builtin editor commands, zsh allows you to
define your own. The `zle -C' command here creates the match-word
editor command. Editor commands which do completion are a little
different so they are defined with `zle -C' instead of `zle -N'.

To implement a user-defined editor widget, a function has to be
written. In this case, we use _generic which is an already existing
completion function. _generic hooks in to the existing function based
completion system. With it, escape * is now going to behave like a
second tab key and do completion. With the zstyle commands we make it
behave differently while still doing completion.

zstyle is a powerful command which is used for configuring many aspects
of completion. It is similar to setting shell options or variables but
a particular "style" can have a different value in different contexts.

You may have already used zstyle in your startup file. The `completer'
style is a very common one. For example, you may use something like:

zstyle ':completion:::::' completer _expand _complete _approximate

This defines the default completer so will be used for your tab key.
This would allow completion to do expansion (expanding file patterns
like fred*), then normal completion and then approximate completion
(which allows for errors in what you have typed).

Above, I used ':completion:match-word::::' as the context. This
restricts the style to applying for our new match-word editor command.
So escape * now does completion but uses a different set of completers.
The important completer in this case was _match. It alone would do the
job you were asking about. The other two completers (_all_matches and
_ignored) just add some extra functionality.

The same goes for the second (match-original) style. That just allows
you to go back to the original string you had typed (such as fred*)
more easily if completion finds several matches.

I hope that makes it clearer. Completion is very configurable and this
isn't the simplist example to start with.

Oliver

Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 4,  2:54pm, zzapper wrote:
} 
} Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*" and there
} exists a file frederick.txt and a directory frederick ??
} 
} I guess it's becauses the FNG handling  fred* doesn't know that it's
} output is to be passed to cd .

Congratulations, you win a no-prize for accurate guessing.

} But can clever zsh be configued to avoid this behaviour.

You could always use a wrapper like this:

	function cd {
	    local -a dirs
	    dirs=( "${^@}"(-/N) )
	    if (( $#dirs == 1 ))
	    then builtin cd $dirs
	    else builtin cd "$@"
	    fi
	}

However, that might sometimes foil use of the two-argument form of "cd".

Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[zzapper]

Thanx Stephen & Bart

Can anyone talk me thru the following two expressions  I can guess
what they are doing but I'd like to know the principles (which do the
same thing (?)). I'm a zsh newbie and the shell syntax is still a bit
shocking!


   dirs=( "${^@}"(-/N) )  


[[ -d $d ]] && dirs=($dirs $d)   # if $d is a directory then load
dirname in array dirs
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Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Pavol Juhas]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:50:33PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Thanx Stephen & Bart
> 
> Can anyone talk me thru the following two expressions  I can guess
> what they are doing but I'd like to know the principles (which do the
> same thing (?)). I'm a zsh newbie and the shell syntax is still a bit
> shocking!
> 
>    dirs=( "${^@}"(-/N) )  

"${^array}"_text  expands array to
    "${array[1]}"_text "${array[2]}"_text ...
and so the expression in parenthesis is expanded to
    ( "$1"(-/N) "$2"(-/N) "$3"(-/N) ... )

(-/N) is a globing qualifier, where '-' specifies that following
qualifiers apply to targets of symlinks, '/' requests directories, and
so '-/' requires directories or symbolic links that point to
directories.  'N' turns on the null_glob option for this pattern, which
means that the word is deleted if it does not match a file (otherwise an
error message would be printed).  You may try this with
    print no_dir(/)
and
    print no_dir(/N)

Summing up  ( "${^@}"(-/N) )  is expanded to an array of positional
arguments which are directories or symbolic links to directories.

Ref: man zshexpn  then search for /glob qua/
     info zsh filename\ generation
     zsh reference card from www.zsh.org is also very useful

HTH,

Pavol