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

[Johan Grande <nahoj@crans.org>]

Le 22/06/2023 à 05:54, Bart Schaefer a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:29 PM Johan Grande <nahoj@crans.org> wrote:
>> Do you think that this behavior could be fixed?
> 
> We could try this.  However, it's not backward-compatible for people
> who are already quoting spaces etc. for _files -F patterns.

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 and have more flexibility in 
filtering matches. I assume I'll lose some perks of _files but it'll 
hopefully fit my needs.

If you have any tips or a good example to study, I'll be grateful.

What I'll be aiming to do is:
- 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.

Thanks

-- 
Johan