Re: [PATCH] _files: "list-dirs-first" style.

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:06:10 +0400
"Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.org> wrote:
> When this style set to "true", directories are shown before
> files.  Also instead of "all-files" tag it offers
> "other-files" bceause directories are excluded from file
> list.

Thanks, this looks potentially useful and at worst harmless (haven't
quite worked out why you can't do it with tag ordering but they're
certainly fiddly and this is a common case).  I've committed it with the
docs below.

Index: Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.213
diff -u -r1.213 compsys.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo	29 Jul 2008 08:39:41 -0000	1.213
+++ Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo	21 Aug 2008 15:50:11 -0000
@@ -928,6 +928,11 @@
 item(tt(other-accounts))(
 used to look up the tt(users-hosts) style
 )
+kindex(other-files, completion tag)
+item(tt(other-files))(
+for the names of any non-directory files.  This is used instead
+of tt(all-files) when the tt(list-dirs-first) style is in effect.
+)
 kindex(packages, completion tag)
 item(tt(packages))(
 for packages (e.g. tt(rpm) or installed tt(Debian) packages)
@@ -1854,6 +1859,14 @@
 The default colors are the same as for the GNU tt(ls) command and can be
 obtained by setting the style to an empty string (i.e. tt('')).
 )
+kindex(list-dirs-first, completion style)
+item(tt(list-dirs-first))(
+This is used by file completion.  If set, directories to be completed
+are listed separately from and before completion for other files,
+regardless of tag ordering.  In addition, the tag tt(other-files)
+is used in place of tt(all-files) for the remaining files, to indicate
+that no directories are presented with that tag.
+)
 kindex(list-grouped, completion style)
 item(tt(list-grouped))(
 If this style is `true' (the default), the completion system will try to


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