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Re: Matching against file suffix
- X-seq: zsh-workers 10020
- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Matching against file suffix
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:42:39 +0100 (MET)
- In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:36:33 +0300
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> So far, the two major uses I had for globbing were:
>
> 1. patch < /.../zsh/patches/<1234->TAB
>
> This is nice for manually applying patches; I save them with article number and simply get
> the next by incrementing number and hitting TAB
>
> 2. foo .../zsh/Doc/*.texi
>
> That is the case, when I do know file suffix and want to get just this one file.
> Unfortunately, as was oft seen, this has problems with _path_files - and, Sven, you once
> wrote, that you do not use globbing at all but use spiffy match controls instead.
>
> Is it possible to match by file suffix with matching control? It is 'course possible by
> moving cursor before suffix - but that I'd like to avoid. The idea is to hit TAB at the
> end of input word and still get completion.
The simple 'r:|.=* r:|=*' works for me, i.e. `foo .../.texi<TAB>'
gives me the *.texi files.
Btw, I have the _match completer in my completer style, but only after
all the matcher-list specs have been tried (which include the one
above and the substring-matcher `l:|=* r:|=*').
Bye
Sven
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