Re: Matching against file suffix

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

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> So far, the two major uses I had for globbing were:
> 
> 1. patch < /.../zsh/patches/<1234->TAB
> 
> This is nice for manually applying patches; I save them with article number and simply get
> the next by incrementing number and hitting TAB
> 
> 2. foo .../zsh/Doc/*.texi
> 
> That is the case, when I do know file suffix and want to get just this one file.
> Unfortunately, as was oft seen, this has problems with _path_files - and, Sven, you once
> wrote, that you do not use globbing at all but use spiffy match controls instead.
> 
> Is it possible to match by file suffix with matching control? It is 'course possible by
> moving cursor before suffix - but that I'd like to avoid. The idea is to hit TAB at the
> end of input word and still get completion.

The simple 'r:|.=* r:|=*' works for me, i.e. `foo .../.texi<TAB>'
gives me the *.texi files.

Btw, I have the _match completer in my completer style, but only after
all the matcher-list specs have been tried (which include the one
above and the substring-matcher `l:|=* r:|=*').

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de