suffixes in _zstyle, was: How to accept a completion?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2009/4/29 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/19 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>:
>> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>
>>> As an aside, after i write $PWD(:<tab> to get the s, how do i "accept"
>>> the completion to make tab complete the - instead of cycling to the
>>> next completer? The only way i found is typing something and deleting
>>> it... When completing directories i usually just type a /.
>>
>> Just type the string that's got to come next; it always does, or the s
>> is useless: there's no point typing anything you need to delete, just
>> use what you don't need to delete.  Actually, why don't you just type
>> "s-"?  The "completion" is really only there as a mnemonic of what can
>> go at that point, it doesn't save you any typing even in the optimal
>> case.
>
> Okay, finally encountered a real example of this being annoying now.
> % scp file lt<tab>
> ---- file
> lth/
> ---- remote host name
> lth
>
> tabbing to the remote host name gives me
> % scp file lth:
> Now how do i complete files on the remote end? If i press tab again i just get
> % scp file lth/
> And if i type a : i get
> % scp file lth::
> the only way that works is typing something and backspacing, then
> pressing tab again...

Found another one of these, zstyle <tab><tab> gives you :completion:
with no obvious way to continue completing without <space><backspace>
or some variation thereof. The following fixes it; I think this is
another case of not wanting the : to be removed on a space, but the
rest of the completer uses -qS.

I did notice though that my "hilight suffixes" thing only works for
the -q case, not for -r:, same with the scp completion. I was really
just looking around at various variables in that code picking one that
seemed to be what I wanted, but apparently I didn't get the exact
correct thing then. Any ideas?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

diff --git a/Completion/Zsh/Command/_zstyle b/Completion/Zsh/Command/_zstyle
index 0080619..6e34fcc 100644
--- a/Completion/Zsh/Command/_zstyle
+++ b/Completion/Zsh/Command/_zstyle
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ while (( $#state )); do
   case "$state[1]" in
     (contexts)
       if [[ ! -prefix :*: ]]; then
-       _wanted contexts expl context compadd -P : -S : completion zftp
+       _wanted contexts expl context compadd -P : -qS : completion zftp
       elif compset -P :completion:; then
         for ostate in functions _completers cmdorcont argument tag; do
          compset -P '[^:]#:' || break