From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20537 invoked from network); 19 Mar 1999 08:36:15 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Mar 1999 08:36:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 17090 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 1999 08:35:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5859 Received: (qmail 17074 invoked from network); 19 Mar 1999 08:35:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:35:38 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199903190835.JAA00723@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:37:04 +0300 Subject: Re: _path_files and _cd with explicit glob pattern Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > bor@itsrm2:/tools/src/zsh-3.1.5-pws-12/Completion%> zsh -f > itsrm2% fpath=($PWD/${^~:-*(/)}) > itsrm2% source Core/compinit > itsrm2% cdpath=(/tools/src) > itsrm2% setopt globcomplete > itsrm2% cd /tools > itsrm2% l s/*3TAB > itsrm2% l src/autoconf-2.13/ > autoconf-2.13/ samba-2.0.3/ tk8.0.3/ zsh-3.1.5-pws-12/ > mc-4.5.13/ sendmail-8.9.3/ top-3.4/ > ncftp-3.0beta18/ tcl8.0.3/ wget-1.5.3/ > > In other words, all files with ``3'' in them are taken. And menu starts > immediately. That's because with `globcomplete', the code inserts a `*' at the cursor position. I'm reluctant to change this (since that would be an incompatible change), but I always was aware of the problem and the patch for matching-cleanup I'm working on will allow one to say that no `*' should be inserted -- this is also interesting to have when using auto-correction (and somehow I got a mail from Peter replying to a mail from Bart where this problem was mentioned). > I think, if user explicitly gives glob pattern, he probably knows what he's > doing. I noted this, when I tried to change to a directory; there were three > dirs: > SIN3C1 SIN3C2 SIN3C3 - and I wanted to select exactly one (the last) but got > all three. > > And another problem with _cd (I think) > > itsrm2% cd s/*3TAB > Beep Is this still with the setting of `cdpath' you gave above? If so, this is correct ;-) > Ahem ... I'd expect it to complete to src/whatever > > itsrm2% cd *3TAB (they are all in /tools/src) > itsrm2% cd autoconf-2.13 > autoconf-2.13 samba-2.0.3 tk8.0.3 zsh-3.1.5-pws-12 > mc-4.5.13 sendmail-8.9.3 top-3.4 > ncftp-3.0beta18 tcl8.0.3 wget-1.5.3 > > I get the same names and menu starts immediately (that's due to _path_files > I think) but they are not marked with slash (and no autoremoved slash > either) Hm, this should work, and it does for me. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de