Re: PATCH: Re: completion after ../

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <200002180939.KAA30810@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
>   Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > Or we name it `single-ignored' (yes, there must be a better name) and
> > enhace it: if it's set to `show' we use the above. If it's set to
> > `menu' we also add the string from the line in the alternate set (as
> > usual, with -S '', in it's own group, with a call to _description and
> > so on...) and start menu-completion (compstate[insert]=menu).
> 
> I tried this.  I inserted the following fragment just before line 83
> in _main_complete.
> 
> if zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" single-ignored tmp &&
>    [[ $compstate[old_list] != shown &&
>       $compstate[nmatches] = 0 &&
>       $compstate[alternate_nmatches] = 1 ]]; then
>   case "$tmp" in
>   show) compstate[insert]='' compstate[list]='list force';;
>   menu) compstate[insert]='menu';;
>   esac
>   tmp=false
>   [[ $tmp = menu ]] && tmp=true
> else
>   tmp=false
> fi
> 
> if [[ $compstate[nmatches] -gt 1 ]] || $tmp; then
> ...
> 
> But I couldn't find the way to get the string from the alternate set.
> So, it completes a word with a following space and the next <TAB>
> completes a next word.
> 
> How can we get the string?

I thought about something like the thing below, using the -a option to
compadd to put the original in the alternate set.

Note: no change to _zstyle and no doc, this is mostly Tanaka's code
turned into a patch for everybodys convenience. Also, I'm not sure how 
to write that in the manual -- it's certainly one of the more obscure
styles.


Bye
 Sven

diff -ru ../z.old/Completion/Core/_main_complete Completion/Core/_main_complete
--- ../z.old/Completion/Core/_main_complete	Fri Feb 18 15:42:41 2000
+++ Completion/Core/_main_complete	Mon Feb 21 10:24:49 2000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 setopt localoptions nullglob rcexpandparam extendedglob
 unsetopt markdirs globsubst shwordsplit nounset ksharrays
 
-local comp post ret=1 _compskip format _comp_ignore \
+local comp post ret=1 tmp _compskip format _comp_ignore \
       _completers _completer _completer_num \
       _matchers _matcher _matcher_num \
       context state line opt_args val_args curcontext="$curcontext" \
@@ -80,7 +80,24 @@
   (( _completer_num++ ))
 done
 
-if [[ $compstate[nmatches] -gt 1 ]]; then
+if zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" single-ignored tmp &&
+   [[ $compstate[old_list] != shown &&
+      $compstate[nmatches] = 0 &&
+      $compstate[alternate_nmatches] = 1 ]]; then
+  case "$tmp" in
+  show) compstate[insert]='' compstate[list]='list force' tmp='' ;;
+  menu)
+    local expl
+
+    compstate[insert]='menu'
+    _description original expl original    
+    compadd "$expl[@]" -a -S '' - "$PREFIX$SUFFIX"
+    ;;
+  *) tmp='' ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+if [[ -n "$tmp" || $compstate[nmatches] -gt 1 ]]; then
   [[ _last_nmatches -ge 0 && _last_nmatches -ne compstate[nmatches] ]] &&
       _menu_style=( "$_last_menu_style[@]" "$_menu_style[@]" )
 

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de