Re: [bug] Completion functions _files/_path_files -F filter on escaped file names

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

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Took me a while to get back to this, went on vacation and veered to other
topics.

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 12:55 PM Johan Grande <nahoj@crans.org> wrote:

>
> After looking at your suggestion and other, existing completions such as
> _git, I get the impression that I shouldn't use _files but rather mimic
> its basic behavior with _multi_parts [...]
> If you have any tips or a good example to study, I'll be grateful.
>

The shortest possible example would be something like

local expl # set by _wanted
local tree=(**/*)
_wanted files expl 'files in tree' _multi_parts "$@" -f - / tree

The stuff you describe here ...


> - complete will all files under a path filtered with a regex or an
> arbitrary command
> - contrary to _git, I won't have a root dir so if I'm working in a
> directory with >10k files under it, I might want to suggest only
> immediate children in the first instance rather than browse everything
> at once.
>

... all goes into how you populate the "tree" array before calling
_multi_parts.

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