Re: _file in _zmodload: why option -/ ?

["Jun T." <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>]

2013/10/27 06:37、Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure, but its effect on _files is to cause symlinks
> that point to directories to be followed, so I presume it's to force
> symlinks in directories that contain modules to be offered alongside
> the modules that happen to be in the same directory.

In _files, there are lines of code (lines 66-69 and 79-82) which seem to be
commented out in 2001; see seq:15995
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2001/msg02656.html
With this old code, if -/ is omitted, then both directories and symlinks to
directories would not be offered.

With the present code, however, I *guess* -/ can be omitted.
But there may be styles and options which could interfere with the option -/
and it may be safer to leave the option as is....

So I tried to modify my zstyle as, for example,

zstyle -e ':completion::*' file-patterns \
  '[[ $funcstack[1] = _files && $type =~ "^[^g]*/[^g]*$" ]] && reply=("*(-/)")'

which seems to solve my problem.