Re: Adding file name completions

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:50:08 -0500
Jean-Rene David <jeanrene.david@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I type a command name followed by <tab> and I find the completer for
> that command doesn't complete filenames, is there a way to tell zsh to
> add filename completion?

Your simplest bet is to have a separate function to complete files,
else you would need to modify the completion function directly.  The
following binds this to C-x f.

zle -C complete-file complete-word _generic
zstyle ':completion:user-expand:*' completer _user_expand
zstyle ':completion:complete-file:*' completer _path_files
bindkey '^xf' complete-file

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