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Re: autocomplete in program

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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: autocomplete in program
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:30:49 +0100
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YT wrote:

> If I send an incomplete filename to
> a function, and then do the [[ -f $file ]]
> test to determine if it is a file, and if it
> isn't, can I programmatically do the
> equivalent of interactive TAB, and if this
> yields and unambiguous filename, use
> that instead?

I got help on #zsh on irc.freenode.net:

    matches=( ${file}*(N) )

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