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Re: completing .directories without . and ..

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: completing .directories without . and ..
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:48:44 +0100
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28950>
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 5:39 PM Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Subj says it all... in some directories I have many .subdirs and when I
> complete them (ie start completion with .<TAB>) I get all the .subdirs
> but also . and .. which in 99.99987% of cases I don't need and don't
> want.

This isn't the default. You must have explicitly set special-dirs to
true. See "special-dirs" in `man zshcompsys` for documentation.

Roman.

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