'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Ole Jørgen Brønner]

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Why does 'ignore-line yes' ignore the _current_ word too? If this is somehow useful in some cases, could we get another option ignoring all words except the current one?

I'm almost burned myself when using
     zstyle ':completion:*:(mv|rm|kill|diff):*' ignore-line yes
and doing
     rm someprefix<tab>
in a directory with files 'someprefix' and 'someprefix_important'. In this case someprefix will expand to someprefix_important

(minimal rc file inclued)


> ignore-line
>
> 	This is tested for each tag valid for the current completion. If it is
> 	set to true, none of the words that are already on the line will be
> 	considered as possible completions. If it is set to current, the word
> 	the cursor is on will not be considered as a possible completion. The
> 	value current-shown is similar but only applies if the list of
> 	completions is currently shown on the screen.  Finally, if the style is
> 	set to other, no word apart from the current one will be considered as a
> 	possible completion.
> 	The values current and current-shown are a bit like the opposite of the
> 	accept-exact style: only strings with missing characters will be
> 	completed.
>
> 	Note that you almost certainly dont want to set this to true or other
> 	for a general context such as :completion:*. This is because it would
> 	disallow completion of, for example, options multiple times even if the
> 	command in question accepts the option more than once.

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Ole Jørgen Brønner

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autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

zstyle ':completion:*:(mv|rm|kill|diff):*' ignore-line yes

cd /tmp
touch prefix
touch prefix_important

ls prefix*

echo "now do"
echo "rm prefix<tab>"tab

Re: 'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Mikael Magnusson]

2011/5/8 Ole Jørgen Brønner <olejorgenb@yahoo.no>:
> Why does 'ignore-line yes' ignore the _current_ word too? If this is somehow
> useful in some cases, could we get another option ignoring all words except
> the current one?
>
> I'm almost burned myself when using
>    zstyle ':completion:*:(mv|rm|kill|diff):*' ignore-line yes
> and doing
>    rm someprefix<tab>
> in a directory with files 'someprefix' and 'someprefix_important'. In this
> case someprefix will expand to someprefix_important
>
> (minimal rc file inclued)
>
>
>> ignore-line
>>
>>   Finally, if the style is set to other, no word apart from
>>   the current one will be considered as a possible completion.

Did you paste this manpage extract as a way of saying "never mind, I
found the answer"? But then why did you press send? Color me confused.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: 'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Ole Jørgen Brønner]

>>> ignore-line
>>>
>>>   Finally, if the style is set to other, no word apart from
>>>   the current one will be considered as a possible completion.
>
> Did you paste this manpage extract as a way of saying "never mind, I
> found the answer"? But then why did you press send? Color me confused.
>

Hehe :), no just so other people had a quick reference for the current behavior. I want to change it or add an extra option

Re: 'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Ole Jørgen Brønner]

>>> ignore-line
>>>
>>>   Finally, if the style is set to other, no word apart from
>>>   the current one will be considered as a possible completion.
>
> Did you paste this manpage extract as a way of saying "never mind, I
> found the answer"? But then why did you press send? Color me confused.
>

Hehe :), no just so other people had a quick reference for the current behavior. I want to change it or add an extra option

Re: 'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Mikael Magnusson]

2011/5/9 Ole Jørgen Brønner <olejorgenb@yahoo.no>:
>>>> ignore-line
>>>>
>>>>  Finally, if the style is set to other, no word apart from
>>>>  the current one will be considered as a possible completion.
>>
>> Did you paste this manpage extract as a way of saying "never mind, I
>> found the answer"? But then why did you press send? Color me confused.
>>
>
> Hehe :), no just so other people had a quick reference for the current
> behavior. I want to change it or add an extra option

Okay, maybe the text you pasted is obvious to me, but not to you, or I
am completely misunderstanding what you want to do. Does setting the
style to "other" not do exactly what you want?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: 'ignore-line yes' style semantics?

[Ole Jørgen Brønner]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:45:32 +0200, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/5/9 Ole Jørgen Brønner <olejorgenb@yahoo.no>:
>>>>> ignore-line
>>>>>
>>>>>  Finally, if the style is set to other, no word apart from
>>>>>  the current one will be considered as a possible completion.
>>>
>>> Did you paste this manpage extract as a way of saying "never mind, I
>>> found the answer"? But then why did you press send? Color me confused.
>>>
>>
>> Hehe :), no just so other people had a quick reference for the current
>> behavior. I want to change it or add an extra option
>
> Okay, maybe the text you pasted is obvious to me, but not to you, or I
> am completely misunderstanding what you want to do. Does setting the
> style to "other" not do exactly what you want?
>

Hm.. that seems indeed to be the case :) I can no longer remember what I thought the 'other' value did. Maybe something like that _only_ the current word (of like, all possible words) would be considered, although that doesn't make sense at all. I can swear I tested it though, but apparently not.

Thanks, and sorry for the last double post