Re: _files vs _path_files discussion (old thread)

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 12,  6:21am, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} Subject: Re: _files vs _path_files discussion (old thread)
}
} [*] Sven's suggested change was:
} } ... should we make the directories tag with its usual pattern be
} } tried automatically if the user explicitly sets the file-patterns tag
} } for globbed-files? Or should we do that only if the directories tag,
} } file-patterns style is given, but allow an empty value to stand for
} } `the normal pattern'?
} 
} My short answer is that I don't think there's any good solution.  The
} tag-order style is going to be confusing no matter what we do [...]

One additional thought:  It would be nice to be able to specify that
_paths_ are completed, rather than merely directories; i.e. like the
difference between "compctl -g '*(-/)'" and "compctl -/".  I'm not
convinced that "zstyle *directories file-patterns '*(-/)'" does that.

} some kind of blaring all-caps text in the tag-order documentation:
} 
} NAMING A TAG IN TAG-ORDER DOES NOT CAUSE COMPLETIONS FOR THAT TAG TO BE
} GENERATED; RATHER, IT SORTS THE COMPLETIONS AFTER THEY ARE GENERATED.

Hrm, maybe even add "... BUT ONLY _IF_ ANY ARE GENERATED FOR THAT TAG."

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