Re: Don't append slash when auto completing a symbolic link pointing to a directory

[Alan <8fvebtoeq87@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, I have autoremoveslash disabled (i.e. 'unsetopt
autoremoveslash'), and prefer it that way for other things, so the trailing
slash isn't removed when pressing enter.


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:53 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/28/20, Alan <8fvebtoeq87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm switching from bash to zsh and prefer bash's default behavior of not
> > appending a slash when auto completing a symbolic link pointing to a
> > directory.
> >
> > For example:
> > $ mkdir directory
> > $ ln -s directory symblink
> > $ ls sym<TAB>
> >
> > At this point, in bash, you would get:
> > $ ls symblink
> >
> > In zsh, I'm getting:
> > $ ls symblink/
> >
> > Also, in bash, hitting a <TAB> when the full symbolic link is already
> > present would then append the slash to the symbolic link:
> > $ ls symblink<TAB>
> > $ ls symblink/
> >
> > Is there anyway to get this behavior with zsh? I looked through "man
> > zshoptions" this time and couldn't find anything specific to this.
>
> If it makes you feel better, hitting enter will remove the / and just
> run "ls symblink". (Although this makes no difference to ls unless you
> also give -l). The / is just inserted temporarily in case you want to
> continue typing/completing things inside the directory, but a space,
> enter or movement etc will remove it again. This should be indicated
> by a bold/standout font.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>