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From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker)
To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: strange completion
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 07:52:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199505290552.AA11581@phys.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199505290510.AAA15728@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> (message from Soren Dayton on Mon, 29 May 95 00:10:20 -0500)

Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:

> This makes no sense to me...

> compctl -x 'C[-1,-*d*]' -g '*.gz *.Z *.z' -g '*(-/)' -- gzip

> here, I am in a directory with a directory and a tar.gz file

> gzip -d <tab>
>  will complete to
> gzip -d <directory>

> Am I misunderstanding this?  I want this to complete to .gz files.  

The two -g flags are used simultaneously, expanding to one set of
completions.  So if the directory is before the .gz file
alphabetically, it will complete first.  To use the second flag only
if the first one does not generate any completions, put a '+' between
them.

Hope this helps,

Bas.


      parent reply	other threads:[~1995-05-29  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-05-29  5:10 Soren Dayton
1995-05-29  5:13 ` Soren Dayton
1995-05-29  5:59   ` Richard Coleman
1995-05-29  5:52 ` Bas V. de Bakker [this message]

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