Re: PATCH: first go at directory info in completion.

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:33, Peter Stephenson<pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is work in progress, which won't be committed, so I'm interested in
> > comments about tweaks (I am not interested in comments about wholesale
> > rewrites and upgrades of the
> > wouldn't-it-be-great-if-everything-were-much-much-better variety in this
> > thread; that's not going to happen).
> 
> I won't make any such comment and I have no tweak to mention, I just
> have a wish for a use case for this addition.  I don't see the
> immediate use for it.

Sometimes you have sets of directories with cryptic names, for example
named after bug records, in which you keep information to do with
it---anything vaguely database-related gives you this sort of
arrangement, in fact.  Rather than seeing completion lists like

BUG0001  BUG0002  BUG0003 BUG0004

you now create a one-line file (say .zshinfo) in each directory
describing the directory.  Then you can get completion lists looking
like

BUG0001  # Light switch failed to illuminate room
BUG0002  # Light bulb in south east corner of room broken
BUG0003  # Wiring behind light switch worn
BUG0004  # Loose screw on diffusor in south west corner of room

so when changing directory you no longer have to remember a set of
4-digit numbers.

The main problem at the moment is that while it's fine when every
completion is in that form, it's quite confusing if there are a mixture
of types.

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