Re: Explicit colons in zstyle

[Jesper Nygårds <jesper.nygards@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the book (Oliver wrote that bit) is just making the point that
> the completer style is always looked up with most of the fields empty.
> By recognising the fact you can make it match many of the fields
> exactly.
>
> The only difference with replace the :::: with :* is that it becomes
> according to the rules a less exact match, so that if you happened to
> have both definitions the former would take precedence.  That's not
> something you typically need to worry about.

I see. Thank you for the explanation.