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Re: Completions from file with zcompsys
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:32:15PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jun 20, 7:02pm, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> } Trying that there is a slight problem. The file has 9529 lines;
> } now, when you type something like
> }
> } Chenopodium x<TAB>
>
> OK, here you have two words but you haven't quoted them. So the match
> is going to only be on "x" -- completion is tightly bound to the shell
> parser idea of a "word". You need to start from
>
> $ foo 'Chenopodium x<TAB>
>
> (in which case completion will supply the closing quote) or
>
> $ foo Chenopodium\ x<TAB>
That was really just a typo in the mail. On the command line, the
space was quotred.
> Or you need to use a different key binding that will back up and grab
> both words before invoking completion.
That youldn't help because a taxon can be one to four words, at
least, possibly more.
> } (where no such taxon exists in the file), zsh starts gobbling 100%
> } cpu for about half a minute before completing an approximate
> } match.
>
> Yeah, approximate isn't going to deal well with that much data, it has
> to try multiple different substrings of the input word against every
> word passed to compadd. Although in the example above the fact that
> it is looking for every word that has something that might be mistaken
> for an "x" may make it worse.
Isn't there a way to switch it off for a specific command?
Reading the examples I'd have guessed that
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _match _approximate
zstyle ':completion:*:*:foo' completer _complete _match
Would turn off the _approximate completer for the foo command, but
it doesn't.
> For this you might want to write a real function and run "agrep" or "fzf"
> or something like those, to pre-filter the file contents before passing
> to compadd.
Well, keeping this in mind; the approximation stuff may not be
that important anyway.
> } zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _match _approximate
> } zstyle ':completion:*:match:*' original only
> } zstyle -e ':completion:*:approximate:*' max-errors 'reply=($((($#PREFIX+$#SUFFIX)/3))numeric)'
>
> There's a typo in that last line, there should be a space before the
> word "numeric".
Oops.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt
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