Re: TAB-expansion problems

[Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@xxxxxx>]

From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAB-expansion problems
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:50:36 +0000

Hi Bart, hi list members!

 :)

 I see, I have to learn A LOT more about zsh!

 Ok, I "killed" cdpath and now my <TAB> does not report "everything
 ever seen" anymore.

 I included the first zstyle in my .$HOME/zshrc and got after entering
 
		cd <TAB>

 the additonal information, saying:

	    Completing local directory

 which is exactly what I want to have (currently, for the first... ;)

 An addtional I have:

 Suppose your are here:

		 $HOME/ThisDir/AnotherDir

 and in ./AnotherDir there is another dir called "WhereIWantToBe"

 Now I enter

	 cd <TAB>

 Does zsh think that there is no match since I didn't enter

     cd Whe<TAB>

 thus preferring to show me possibilities for completions from the
 path-directories OR does zsh "see" the one and only directoy
 "WhereIWantToBe" and gives me

	 cd WhereIWantToBe

 right after hitting <TAB>?

 Thanks a lot for all the friendly help !

 Keep hacking!
 Meino

> On Mar 11,  7:37pm, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> } 
> }   Suppose I am at my $HOME/tmp/. directory. Furthermore there is only
> }   ONE additional directory called "TheLonelyOne" there. And I want to
> }   to change into that directory. As a lazy person now I would type on
> }   the commandline 
> } 
> } 	  cd <TAB>
> } 
> }   and want to get 
> } 
> }       cd TheLonelyOne
> } 
> }   then instead all worldwide reachable directories as a suggestion.
> 
> As Tim Kruse has said, the likelyhood here is that zsh is suggesting
> subdirectories of the directories listed in your cdpath.  If you add
> the following style you'll get better information:
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*' format '%SCompleting %U%d%u%s'
> 
> After you've tried that, so you've seen what's going on, you can then
> add this style:
> 
> zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order \
> 	local-directories path-directories
> 
> The tag-order style controls which sets of matches are displayed.  In
> the example above, local-directories are preferred, and only when no
> local directories are found are path-directories (those found along
> your cdpath) shown.  The default is to display all sets of matches at
> the same time.
> 
> }   From my current point of knowledge I didn't neither know the correct
> }   naming for that behaviour
> 
> It's "completion".
>