Re: <Tab> completion does not insert a slash

[Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, more clarification. I've used "zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:descriptions'".

Now it seems that with the second completed path, the completion engine cannot decide between these two:

% cd src/python<Tab>
-- directory after cdablevar --

-- local directory --

Frankly, I still don't understand what the problem is, because I'm inside a dir pointed to by a named directory (src/ in this case) and both "directory after cdablevar" and "local directory" are the same directory anyway.

Peter

сре, 11. авг 2021. у 22:03 Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@xxxxxxxxx> је написао/ла:

Sorry for the late reply, I tried both versions (with and without parentheses).

I tried to descend into 'src/python/api' by typing 'cd s<Tab>', later with src completed, 'cd src/py<Tab>'.

Here are the results: using the value 'tag-order local-directories named-directories' helped with completing src/, the directory name was completed immediately upon hitting Tab. The second dir (python) was not completed on the first Tab press. Typing another Tab did *not* produce a list of suggestions.

Here is the result of 'sr<ctrl+x h>' and 'src/py<ctrl+x h>'.

% cd sr<ctrl+x h>
tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
local-directories named-directories      (_cd)
users named-directories directory-stack  (_tilde _cd)
users                                    (_users _tilde _cd)

% cd src/py<ctrl+x h>
tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
named-directories  (_cd)
local-directories  (_cd)

% cd src/python/<ctrl+x h>

(no results)

Do you think that there is anything suspicious? Personally I wonder why there are duplicated entries in the first case and why are the tags listed in a reversed order in the second case. And yes, the empty result list in the last case.

Peter

сре, 4. авг 2021. у 19:26 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> је написао/ла:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:50 AM Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It seems like the completion engine cannot choose between the named directory and a local directory of the same name. In reality, they point to the same dir.
>
> Is there a way to fix this behavior?

Yes.  The default is to offer all possible completions at the same
time, but you can change that with the tag-order zstyle.

The default behaves mostly like this:
zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order "local-directories
named-directories"
(all tags in the same space-separated string are offered at the same time)

What you want is more like this:
zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order local-directories named-directories

You can reverse the order if you prefer to see the named-directories first:
zstyle :completion::complete:cd:: tag-order named-directories local-directories

Anything in a tag you don't include in the list will be offered if
there are no results for the tags you do list.