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Re: _files vs _path_files discussion (old thread)
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- From: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: _files vs _path_files discussion (old thread)
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:14:23 +0000
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- Reply-to: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Bart Schaefer (schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mar 12, 1:02pm, Adam Spiers wrote:
> } Subject: Re: _files vs _path_files discussion (old thread)
> }
> } # Include non-hidden directories in globbed file completions
> } compstyle '::complete:*' \
> } tag-order 'globbed-files directories' all-files
> } compstyle '::complete:*:*:directories' file-patterns '*~.*(-/)'
> }
> } It's almost perfect ...
>
> Have you tried that with, say, `ls' ? I'll bet it ends up completing
> _only_ directories, because there's no -g option passed to _files for
> `ls' like there is for `tar'.
Of course you're right, and I had to change it back as soon as I
realised :-(
> If you have global directories file-patterns you're going to need them
> for globbed-files, too ...
Why's that? I'm still not fully understanding this, it seems.
> Do you have the GLOB_DOTS option set, by chance?
I did, until you pointed it out ;-)
> Effectively, what you want is to subdivide the 'directories' tag and
> have it treated like it has it's own internal tag-order.
That's right. Now why couldn't I have thought clearly enough to
realise that?
> One possibility would be to make file-patterns itself into a hierarchy;
> that is
>
> zstyle :completion::complete:tar::directories \
> file-patterns '*(-/)' '.*(-/)'
>
> would mean to use '.*(-/)' only if '*(-/)' returned nothing. The current
> meaning of the above is also expressible by
>
> zstyle :completion::complete:tar::directories \
> file-patterns '*(-/) .*(-/)'
>
> (that is, file-patterns is presently a string, not an array) so we would
> not be losing any functionality.
>
> Then all we need is a magic token in file-patterns to mean "use anything
> passed to _files with the -g option here" and global file-patterns would
> become really useful.
That sounds really nice.
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