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Re: File completion under Cygwin again
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- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: File completion under Cygwin again
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:01:29 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:46:44 +0400
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> It seems, that there is some demand for Zsh under Cygwin (and I got private
> mail asking for binary distribution). For this reason I list problems/wishes I
> am aware about now; it would really be nice if some of these were fixed in
> 4.0.
>
> 1. drive:/path completion.
>
> This is an absolute path on under Cygwin. Currently, Zsh treats it as relative
> to current directory.
Use the fake-files style to offer `a:/' etc. Then use an
implementation of _first that makes compset -P '?:/' and calls _files
with -W. Does that work?
> 2. UNC path completion - //server/share/path - here actually subtopics
> a) server name completion
> b) share name completion
> c) path completion
>
> a) is unlikely and I am currently unaware of any easy way to implement b), but
> c) is quite possible. Current problem is, globbing on the first two levels
> fails and Zsh finds no match.
I'm not exactly sure what this does, but maybe it could be done with
some more fiddling with _first (I mean: completing the server names)?
> 3. (related to 2) currently we can either squeeze all slashes or nothing.
> Under Cygwin initial `//' is significant and must not be squeezed
> irrespectively of squeeze-slashes settings.
That's just an additional value for squeeze-slashes and a bit of extra
code in _path_files:298. I think.
> 4. Windows is using case-insensitive file system, so some way to make file
> name completion case-insensitive is needed. It is _not_ the same as simply set
> global matcher - it is applied to _every_ completion, and this is not always
> appropriate.
Use the matcher style? (Not matcher-list.)
> 5. (related to 4) things are complicated by the fact, that you can mount
> case-sensitive file system (e.g. off SAMBA server), so, if we could say "names
> with this prefix are case sensitive and with this not" ...
The matcher style with `zstyle -e'?
> 6. drive:path completion (x:path)
>
> This is *not* the same as 1. It is relative path that is interpreted as
> "relative to current directory of drive x). Unfortunately, this seems to be
> broken in current cygwin, but for the record ...
But the solution may be similar to that for 1, i.e. a bit of checking
in _first, and fake only `a:' etc, not `a:/'.
> 7. Backslash handling. So, that I do not forget it myself :-)
I once said that this may be hard. But maybe it can be made simple:
just convert all backslashes to slashes before completing >:->
Bye
Sven
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