I wrote:
Peter Stephenson wrote:The latter works perfectly. The situation is even more pronounced on zsh under Cygwin, where completing a path with /cygdrive/<drive-letter> will cause your floppy drive to be accessed every time you attempt a new completion. The accept-exact '*' resolves this issue wonderfully. Many thanks!paxunix wrote:Why does zsh have to glob every directory along a pathname in order to find completions within the final directory? For example, take this case:/one/two/three/four <TAB>If I set -x, the output after hitting TAB shows zsh retrieves all the subdirectories within one, two, three and four.It's looking for /oneandabit/twoandabit/threeandabit/four... etc. I certainly agree it should be possible to turn this off but the function that implements this is very hairy and full of calls to poorly documented shell internals. The documentation in the zshcompsys manual page suggests setting zstyle ':completion:*:paths' accept-exact true or maybe (I'm not quite sure what the entry means and the implementation is obscure) zstyle ':completion:*:paths' accept-exact '*' If neither works, I would definitely interpret that as a bug. I'm afraid vagueness is the order of the day since the author hasn't been seen in these parts for ages. Maybe Oliver knows more.
Following up to myself--There are a couple of very annoying issues with this solution: ambiguous matches are not cycled through correctly and it is impossible to complete some pathnames. For example, if you have two directories:
dir1 dir1~Typing dir<TAB> will complete up to 'dir1' and (in my case) show dir1 and dir1~ as possible completions. Successively hitting TAB will never cycle through to dir1~ - a trailing '/' is inserted after dir1 and zsh lists the contents of dir1 as possible completions. It appears that any common prefix to an initial path completion attempt causes completion to continue inside the first directory match. If it's between a directory and a filename with a common prefix, things work as they are supposed to.
In case there is a style or option that is messing things up, here is my .compinstall:
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _expand
zstyle ':completion:*' format 'Completing %d...'
zstyle ':completion:*' insert-unambiguous true
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
zstyle :compinstall filename "$HOME//.compinstall"
zstyle ':completion:*:paths' accept-exact '*'
and my setopt output:
noalwayslastprompt
alwaystoend
autopushd
nobeep
completeinword
extendedglob
extendedhistory
globcomplete
histfindnodups
histignorealldups
histreduceblanks
histsavenodups
interactive
interactivecomments
nolistambiguous
nolistbeep
login
monitor
nonomatch
nopromptcr
promptsubst
pushdignoredups
pushdminus
rmstarsilent
sharehistory
shinstdin
typesetsilent
zle
Any ideas appreciated.
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Shawn Halpenny