Bart Schaefer wrote: > > On Aug 4, 8:49pm, Johan Sundström wrote: > > Subject: ideas: free-search-complete, noexpand > > > > Wouldn't it be really nice if there was a completion mechanism that > > wasn't locked to complete from the beginning of your word only, but > > instead would find "mark_dirs" from a larger list of possible > > completions, given the string "dir"? > > It's called "globcomplete": > > zsh% setopt globcomplete automenu > zsh% setopt *dir* > zsh% setopt autonamedirs > zsh% setopt hashdirs > zsh% setopt markdirs > > > I'd love this one --- am I the only one who always seems to remember > > parts of filenames that aren't their first characters? :-/ > > Yup, you seem to want globcomplete. > I guess he is lazy enough to want to get this without having to type the `*'s. Some time ago I posted a patch that added partial word completion, case insensitive completion, and an option called autoglob which implemented this. Andrew decided that it shouldn't go into the baseline. I have some ideas (based upon some older ideas from Peter) for a suggestion to control the matching behaviour of completion in a zsh'ish way, so that it should be powerful enough to get this and other things. You will hear more about this when (and if) I find some time to implement it so that you can play with it. And while I'm at it... our network acces works again for some days now and it seems that I received all messages from the list, so I guess noone has found the time/was interested enough to look at my last patch, right? Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de