Re: Completion on cd

Re: Completion on cd

[Oliver Kiddle]

On Jan 28, 10:10am, zefram@tao.co.uk wrote:
>    compctl -g '*(D-/)' cd
> 
> is better.  The point of using + is that the non-. filenames are used
> if possible, approximating the behaviour of normal filename completion.
> Of course, with the recent compctl patches, one should use
> 
> compctl -/ cd

I was hoping that these -/ options would fix my problems when I upgraded
to 3.1.2-zefram but that wasn't the case. Using the above compctl for cd
and the 3.1.2-zefram I still get the problems I previously described. If
you can't remember, I shall outline it again:

% compctl -/ cd
% cd
% cd [tab]
 -- Only my directories not beginning with "." are listed which is fine
% cd .[tab]
 -- Only my directories beginning with "." are listed which is fine
% cd .netscape/[tab]
 -- All the *files* and directories in .netscape/ (not starting ".") are
 -- listed! I'd have expected it to complete to "cd .netscape/plugins/"
 -- Also annoying is this behaviour:
% cd ..[tab]
 -- I get a beep! It should complete to "cd ../" as in tcsh.

The new -W option is nice though and seems to work very well. Would be
nice if the -Y compctl option patch was included.

Another problem which I've been having with zsh which wasn't a problem
in 3.0.5 but is in 3.1.2 or 3.1.2-zefram is with a particular bindkey:

Under 3.0.5, I used:
bindkey '^[[161q' up-line-or-search

This meant that if I typed a letter, and then pressed Shift-Up the
history would be searched back for a line starting with what I had typed
and the cursor would be positioned at the end of the line. This worked
in the same way as "history-search-backward" from tcsh and was what I
wanted. Under zsh 3.1.2, I just get a beep when I press Shift-Up.
Instead, I have been using:
bindkey '^[[161q' history-beginning-search-backward
which I don't like as much because it leaves the cursor at the same
position.

Oliver Kiddle

Re: Completion on cd

[Andrej Borsenkow]

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> > compctl -/ cd
> 
> I was hoping that these -/ options would fix my problems when I upgraded
> to 3.1.2-zefram but that wasn't the case. Using the above compctl for cd
> and the 3.1.2-zefram I still get the problems I previously described. If
> you can't remember, I shall outline it again:
> 
> % compctl -/ cd
> % cd
> % cd [tab]
>  -- Only my directories not beginning with "." are listed which is fine
> % cd .[tab]
>  -- Only my directories beginning with "." are listed which is fine
> % cd .netscape/[tab]
>  -- All the *files* and directories in .netscape/ (not starting ".") are
>  -- listed! I'd have expected it to complete to "cd .netscape/plugins/"
> 

I cannot reproduce it. compctl -/ cd correctly lists only directories,
with or without . May be, it depends on some options settings; try zsh -f.

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Re: Completion on cd

[Owen M. Astley]

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> On Jan 28, 10:10am, zefram@tao.co.uk wrote:
> I was hoping that these -/ options would fix my problems when I upgraded
> to 3.1.2-zefram but that wasn't the case. Using the above compctl for cd
> and the 3.1.2-zefram I still get the problems I previously described. If
> you can't remember, I shall outline it again:
> 
> % compctl -/ cd
> % cd
> % cd [tab]
>  -- Only my directories not beginning with "." are listed which is fine
> % cd .[tab]
>  -- Only my directories beginning with "." are listed which is fine
> % cd .netscape/[tab]
>  -- All the *files* and directories in .netscape/ (not starting ".") are
>  -- listed! I'd have expected it to complete to "cd .netscape/plugins/"
>  -- Also annoying is this behaviour:
> % cd ..[tab]
>  -- I get a beep! It should complete to "cd ../" as in tcsh.

I use
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' cd

Which doesn't reproduce the behaviour that you have been describing - it
works fine even when going into the .netscape/ directory.

Another thing:
zsh doesn't complete on ./ and ../, you may have to include those
explicitly with something like

-g '.*(-/) ./ ../'

Re: Completion on cd

[Stefan Monnier]

"Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> zsh doesn't complete on ./ and ../, you may have to include those
> explicitly with something like
> -g '.*(-/) ./ ../'

Since ./ is only taken into acount once you have typed . and since .. will
always be there, having ./ doesn't really help since you still have to type the
. and the / anyway. So I got rid of this one. Also having '.* ..' as you
suggest is inconvenient when there's only one .xxx subdir since instead of
completing it, zsh asks you whether you want .xxx or ..

So my choice went for:

	compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' + -g '..' cd chdir dirs pushd

I should probably add some cdpath handling but I don't use it that much anyway.


	Stefan

Re: Completion on cd

[Oliver Kiddle]

On Jan 28,  3:26pm, B.Stephens@isode.com wrote:

> > This is one of the main things I miss from tcsh. I'm hoping those
> > recent patches have sorted this one out but I haven't yet compiled
> > that version of zsh. 
> 
> Yes.
> compctl -/ cd
> completes only directories, even beyond the first level.

Brilliant. These patches are in the recent 3.1.2-zefram version aren't
they? I'll have to compile it.

On Jan 28,  4:25pm, adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> > cd [tab]
> > -- all non directories listed - good.
> I'm sure I'm being stupid, but why on earth would you want
> non-directories listed here?  Surely you would only want
> directories (named or otherwise) and symbolic links to
> directories listed?

I think I meant to say "all non-hidden (i.e., starting with ".") 
directories. So it was me being stupid by not reading through what I'd
written before sending it.

Oliver


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Re: Completion on cd

[Oliver Kiddle]

On Jan 27,  5:35pm, lovell@fc.hp.com wrote:

> I don't have a comment on the suggestion, just my compctl setting for getting
> .<dir>'s to show up:
> 
>   # cd/pushd only directories or symbolic links to directories.  If none of those
>   # match, resort to shell variables
>   compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' -v cd pushd rmdir    

This is roughly what I use but the annoying thing is that it only works
properly for the first level of directories:

from my home:

cd [tab]
-- all non directories listed - good.
cd .[tab]
-- all hidden directories listed
cd .netscape/[tab]
-- all of the *files* and directories in my .netscape directory listed.

This is one of the main things I miss from tcsh. I'm hoping those recent
patches have sorted this one out but I haven't yet compiled that version
of zsh.

Oliver Kiddle

Re: Completion on cd

[Bruce Stephens]

opk101@cs.york.ac.uk said:
> cd .netscape/[tab] -- all of the *files* and directories in my
> .netscape directory listed.

> This is one of the main things I miss from tcsh. I'm hoping those
> recent patches have sorted this one out but I haven't yet compiled
> that version of zsh. 

Yes.

compctl -/ cd

completes only directories, even beyond the first level.

Re: Completion on cd

[Adam Spiers]

Oliver Kiddle (opk101@cs.york.ac.uk) wrote:
> cd [tab]
> -- all non directories listed - good.

I'm sure I'm being stupid, but why on earth would you want
non-directories listed here?  Surely you would only want
directories (named or otherwise) and symbolic links to
directories listed?

Re: Completion on cd

[Steve Talley]

> From lovell@fc.hp.com Tue Jan 27 17:54:03 1998
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:35:20 -0700 (MST)
> From: Matthew Lovell <lovell@fc.hp.com>
> To: Wessel Dankers <wsl@cs.ruu.nl>
> Cc: Zsh users mailing list <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: Completion on cd
> 
> I don't have a comment on the suggestion, just my compctl setting for getting
> .<dir>'s to show up:
> 
>   # cd/pushd only directories or symbolic links to directories.  If none of those
>   # match, resort to shell variables
>   compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' -v cd pushd rmdir    

also known as

compctl -g '(.*|*)(-/)'

~~
Steve

Completion on cd

[Wessel Dankers]

Hi!

Exploring compctl, I wanted to do completion on cd. So I used the obvious
command:

	compctl -g '*(-/)' cd

which gives me what I want... almost. If I enter:

	cd .<TAB>

I get no completions. OK, I thought, let's try a different approach.

	cdcomp() { setopt local_options null_glob; reply=($1*$2(-/)) }
	compctl -S / -q -K cdcomp cd

Almost right, but still not quite. If I enter:

	cd ^D

(^D does list-choices) I don't get slashes/at-signs behind the names
indicating whether it's a directory or a link. 

The problem is obviously that -g should be passed the current prefix and
suffix. Letting the completion mechanism select the possible entries just
isn't enough. Or would it be an idea to integrate globbing and completion
altogether, so that a * does not expand to all possible files/directories
but to all possible selections in that position. In general, these would
be files, but in other places hostnames, etc. This would be an easy way to
get, say, all hostnames, or perhaps all manpages starting with zsh...

Just an idea.

--
Wessel Dankers

Re: Completion on cd

[Matthew Lovell]

I don't have a comment on the suggestion, just my compctl setting for getting
.<dir>'s to show up:

  # cd/pushd only directories or symbolic links to directories.  If none of those
  # match, resort to shell variables
  compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' -v cd pushd rmdir    


On 27 January 1998, Wessel Dankers writes:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > Exploring compctl, I wanted to do completion on cd. So I used the obvious
 > command:
 > [crunch] 

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Re: Completion on cd

[Thomas Koehler]

On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 11:45:38PM +0100, Wessel Dankers wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Exploring compctl, I wanted to do completion on cd. So I used the obvious
> command:
> 
> 	compctl -g '*(-/)' cd
> 
> which gives me what I want... almost. If I enter:
> 
> 	cd .<TAB>
> 
> I get no completions. OK, I thought, let's try a different approach.

What about

   compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd

This should work.

CU,
Thomas

Re: Completion on cd

[Andrew Main]

Thomas Koehler wrote:
>   compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd

   compctl -g '*(D-/)' cd

is better.  The point of using + is that the non-. filenames are used
if possible, approximating the behaviour of normal filename completion.
Of course, with the recent compctl patches, one should use

compctl -/ cd

-zefram

Re: Completion on cd

[Adam Spiers]

Wessel Dankers (wsl@cs.ruu.nl) wrote:
> Exploring compctl, I wanted to do completion on cd. So I used the obvious
> command:
> 
> 	compctl -g '*(-/)' cd
> 
> which gives me what I want... almost. If I enter:
> 
> 	cd .<TAB>
> 
> I get no completions.

Weird!  When I use that compctl, cd .<TAB> /does/ give me
completions.  Unfortunately cd <TAB> also includes all hidden
files in the completions list.  Why is my behaviour different?