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Re: How do I get completion to only match certain types of files

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From: Duncan Sargeant <dunc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ZSH Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How do I get completion to only match certain types of files
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:32:52 +0800
In-reply-to: <199709290331.WAA13616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Gregory Gerard on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 10:31:16PM -0700
References: <199709290331.WAA13616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gregory Gerard wrote on Sun September 28, at 22:31 -0700:
> I would like to restrict the 'cd' command so that it can only
> complete directories (or shell variables).  Other file types (like
> links, devices, etc.) would be gravy, but not necessary.  I could do
> the restriction in tcsh, but tcsh has other problems that caused me
> to switch to zsh.
> 
> While browsing the man page, I saw I could restrict to named
> directories, but that's not really a help.
> 
> Am I missing something in the docs?

I have in my .zshrc:
compctl -g '*(-/)' + -g '.*(-/)' + -k '(..)' cd rmdir

This works well for me, but YMMV.

cheers
,dunc
-- 
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