Re: File completion with git ls-files

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 10:05 AM Jörg Sommer <joerg@jo-so.de> wrote:
>
> I am looking for a way to complete the full path to files in a subdirectory
> by its name. I would like to enter `less foo`, hit TAB (or a special short
> cut) and cycle through the list of `dir/subd-1/subd-2/foo…`,
> `dir2/abc/foo…`, `dir2/s1/s2/s3/foo`.

This is more along the lines of a zsh-users question, but something like this:

git-search-complete() {
  local f
  for f in ${(f)"$( git ls-files )"}
  do
    if [[ $f = */* ]]
    then
      compadd -f -P $f:h/ $f:t
    else
      compadd -f $f
    fi
  done
}
zle -C git-search-complete .menu-complete git-search-complete

Then bindkey git-search-complete to your preference.

This could pretty easily be made into an entry in your "completer"
zstyle to be invoked by TAB when nothing is found by earlier
completers.