How to complete named directories?

How to complete named directories?

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

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I'm using the $VAR -> ~VAR feature but ~VAR isn't completed. How to fix
this?

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Re: How to complete named directories?

[Eric Cook]

On 9/29/22 04:20, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> I'm using the $VAR -> ~VAR feature but ~VAR isn't completed. How to fix this?
>

Would need more information on what you are doing.
$VAR contains a literal string ~VAR which happens to be a named directory?
if so, that wouldn't work since variables expansions aren't subjected to
further expansions.

Re: How to complete named directories?

[Wesley]

On 9/29/22 04:20, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> I'm using the $VAR -> ~VAR feature but ~VAR isn't completed. How to fix this?

This works for me:

VAR=/tmp
cd ~VAR

Have you enabled auto_name_dirs with setopt?

Cheers,
Wesley


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Wesley Schwengle

Re: How to complete named directories?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:27 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using the $VAR -> ~VAR feature but ~VAR isn't completed. How to fix this?

If you mean that

% cd ~V<TAB>

does not complete to

% cd ~VAR

then that's confusing, because it certainly works for me, even if the
value of $VAR doesn't point to an existing location.

If you mean something else, e.g. as Eric speculated, you're going to
have to tell us.