_path_files in numeric order

_path_files in numeric order

[Christian Neukirchen]

Hi,

I was looking into how to make plain file name completion order "by
version", ie. "foo1 foo9 foo10" and found this to be missing from the
"file-sort" style.  I think the easiest way to add this is to put

  [[ "$tmp1" = *numeric* ]] && sort="${sort}n"

in _path_files, below the *rev* and *follow* things.

If anyone has a less invasive method, please tell me.  Else, I propose
to add this feature (or alternatively, a way to inject own sorting
flags directly).

Thanks,
-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

Re: _path_files in numeric order

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 19,  1:53pm, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
}
} I was looking into how to make plain file name completion order "by
} version", ie. "foo1 foo9 foo10" and found this to be missing from the
} "file-sort" style.  I think the easiest way to add this is to put
} 
}   [[ "$tmp1" = *numeric* ]] && sort="${sort}n"

This seems fine to me.

} If anyone has a less invasive method, please tell me.

The only other way to do this is to pass a glob with a qualifier to
the -g option of _path_files, which isn't controllable by zstyle in
any way I can think of.