Disable all-files completions in a directory

Disable all-files completions in a directory

[joe M]

Hello,

Is it possible to disable completions on all-files in some directories?

There is a directory that has a lot of files and I do not want the
all-files pattern to work in that directory or when completing files
in that directory.

Any thoughts, please?

Thanks
Joe

Re: Disable all-files completions in a directory

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 3,  1:26pm, joe M wrote:
}
} Is it possible to disable completions on all-files in some directories?

Depends on what you mean by "in".  (William J. Clinton, 1998)

If you mean "Is it possible to disable completions on all-files when
the value of $PWD matches certain directories?" then yes, you can use
zstyle -e to include/omit all-files from tag-order as necessary.

If you mean "... any time completion reaches certain directories, even
if I'm completing a path that begins somewhere above that directory in
the directory tree?" then the answer is probably no.  However ...

You might experiment with using the file-patterns style to break up the
files into groups regardless of what directory you are in.  For example:

zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
   '*([1,10]):first-ten-files' \
   '*([11,30]):second-twenty-files' \
   '*([31,-1]):all-remaining-files'

Now when you press TAB you'll be offered at most the first-ten-files.
You can advance to the next twenty with the _next_tags widget (bound
by default to control-x n), and then to all the rest of the files with
one more tap of ^Xn.  If you combine this with, for example,

zstyle ':completion:*' file-sort modification

then you'll always be offered the ten most recent files, etc.

Re: Disable all-files completions in a directory

[joe M]

Hello Bart,

> You might experiment with using the file-patterns style to break up the
> files into groups regardless of what directory you are in.  For example:
>
> zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
>    '*([1,10]):first-ten-files' \
>    '*([11,30]):second-twenty-files' \
>    '*([31,-1]):all-remaining-files'
>
> Now when you press TAB you'll be offered at most the first-ten-files.
> You can advance to the next twenty with the _next_tags widget (bound
> by default to control-x n), and then to all the rest of the files with
> one more tap of ^Xn.  If you combine this with, for example,
>
> zstyle ':completion:*' file-sort modification
>
> then you'll always be offered the ten most recent files, etc.

I tried the above with:

zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
  '%p([1,10]):first-ten-globbed-files' \
  '%p([11,30]):second-twenty-globbed-files' \
  '%p([31,-1]):remaining-globbed-files' \
  '*(-/):directories'\
  '*([1,10]):first-ten-files' \
  '*([11,30]):second-twenty-files' \
  '*([31,-1]):remaining-files' \


and this is what I get with _complete_help:

ls \#crux
tags in context :completion::complete:ls::
    argument-rest options  (_arguments _ls (eval))
tags in context :completion::complete:ls:argument-rest:
    first-ten-globbed-files      (_files _arguments _ls (eval))
    second-twenty-globbed-files  (_files _arguments _ls (eval))
    remaining-globbed-files      (_files _arguments _ls (eval))
    directories                  (_files _arguments _ls (eval))

with ^D:

ls \#crux
 -- files --
\#crux.2011-10-03.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-04.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-05.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-06.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-07.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-08.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-09.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-10.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-11.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-12.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-13.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-14.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-15.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-16.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-17.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-18.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-19.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-20.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-21.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-22.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-23.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-24.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-25.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-26.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-27.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-28.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-10-29.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-30.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-10-31.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-01.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-02.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-03.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-04.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-05.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-06.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-07.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-08.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-09.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-10.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-11.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-12.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-13.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-14.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-15.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-16.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-17.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-18.log.bz2        \#crux.2011-11-20.log.bz2
\#crux.2011-11-21.log.bz2

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wondering if you see anything weird that might be messing with the
file-patterns.

Thanks
Joe

Re: Disable all-files completions in a directory

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 3,  5:47pm, joe M wrote:
} Subject: Re: Disable all-files completions in a directory
}
} > You might experiment with using the file-patterns style to break up the
} > files into groups regardless of what directory you are in.
}
} wondering if you see anything weird that might be messing with the
} file-patterns.

No, but I did just discover a bug with _next_tags.  I haven't figured out
how to reproduce it, but the effect is that it's possible to get the
compprefuncs variable set to

_next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre
_next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre
_next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre
_next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre _next_tags_pre

which pretty much goes nuts skipping over all your possible tags as soon
as you start the subsequent completion.  I think.

Anyway MOST of the time the zstyle you tried works for me.  It's only if
I've done something to trigger repetitive compprefuncs falue that things
go off the rails.  So I don't know if that's what happened to you, or if
there is some other obscure interaction with the rest of your styles.

-- 
Barton E. Schaefer