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Re: Prevent auto complete of non-executable files in path



Thank you Dave, that worked great!


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:53 PM Alan <8fvebtoeq87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm switching from bash to zsh (using version 5.8), and one thing that
> bothers me is that zsh auto completes non-executable files in my $PATH.
>
> For example:
>
> $ echo $PATH
> ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
> $ ls -l ~/bin/
> -rwx------    1 user staff     95 Jun  5  2019  asdf1
> -rw-------    1 user staff     95 Jun  5  2019  asdf1~
> -rwx------    1 user staff     95 Jun  5  2019  asdf2
> -rw-------    1 user staff     95 Jun  5  2019  asdf3
> $ asd<TAB>
> external command
> asdf1
> asdf1\~
> asdf2
> asdf3
>
> ...whereas in bash, it would only auto complete asdf1 and asdf2 because
> those are the only 2 files in ~/bin/ that are executable:
>
> $ asd<TAB>
> asdf1
> asdf2
>
> How can I get zsh to only auto complete executable files in the $PATH?
>
> Thanks for your help, much appreciated!
>
>


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