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Subject: RE: Completion for gzcat does not descend directories
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:45:33 +0400
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>
> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> > As in subject. ^Xh lists all three standard tags, but if
> any *.gz file
> > is foundm directories are not listed.
> >
> > I'd expect it to suggest both files and directories.
>
> You should tell it, then. From the docs:
>
> zstyle ':completion:*:gzcat:*' file-patterns \
>     '%p:globbed-files *(-/):directories' '*:all-files'
>
> Or use _next_tags.
>


The actual question is - why it does not do it by default? Well, I
vaguelly remember some discussion on this - but I hopelessly missed it.

IMHO by default file completion should complete directories unless told
otherweise.

-andrej