File completion with git ls-files

File completion with git ls-files

[Jörg Sommer]

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Hi,

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`. Because that's most of the time in a
git repo, the usage of `git ls-files` would be useful. Does Zsh provide
anything to do this?

Regards Jörg

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Re: File completion with git ls-files

[Bart Schaefer]

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.