Re: Ignoring files with a specific extension

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Leslie P. Polzer" wrote:
> what's the most simple way to make zsh completion
> ignore files with a specific extension (here FASL)
> 
>   a) for all commands

  fignore=(.FASL)

or

  fignore+=(.FASL)

to preserve the current contents

>   b) for a certain command (here vim/vi)

  zstyle ':completion::complete:vi(m|):*' ignored-patterns '*.FASL' 

This restricts the effect to just "ordinary" completion, i.e. not all
the various clever additions like spelling correction etc.  To make it
more general,

  zstyle ':completion:*:*:vi(m|):*' ignored-patterns '*.FASL' 

should be good enough.

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