Re: cd ..<tab>?

[Dennis Haney <davh@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Feb 5,  6:19pm, Dennis Haney wrote:
> }
> } Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } 
> } >>Is there a way to make this work properly with setopt GLOB_DOTS?
> } >
>
> } It want to ignore '..' when it is a stupid choice.
> } eg.
> } mkdir Z
> } cd Z/[tab]
> } should NOT complete to 'cd Z/../'
> } (unless CHASE_DOTS is on and 'cd Z/..' will be different from 'cd .')
>
> This is a case where you need 'zstyle -e'.  You want the special-dirs
> style to be non-empty only in certain circumstances.
>
> This completes `..' only if the prefix is either empty, or has a leading
> `.' and contains no slashes:
>
>    zstyle -e ':completion:*' special-dirs \
>        '[[ $PREFIX = (|.[^/]#) ]] && reply=(..)'
heh Thanks. I didnt know I could run a "script" here :)

zstyle -e ':completion:*' special-dirs \
  '[[ $PREFIX = (../)#(|.|..) ]] && reply=(..)'

This will continue to work with cd ../../../..[tab] while working with 
cd .[tab]

Would you please add your (or my) little script to the documentation 
under special-dirs? :)


> To find out that `Z/..' is not the same directory as `.' requires a bit
> of extra work, which I don't have time to do just now, but you can see
> how you'd just insert that into the conditions under which the reply
> array is set by the style.
I dont use CHASE_DOTS luckely :)

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