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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Completion/Unix/Type/_files | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo | 20 |
3 files changed, 47 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2001-10-09 Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org> + + * 15995: Completion/Unix/Type/_files, Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo: + change file completion default to offer globbed files and + directories on first try + 2001-10-09 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> * 15994: Completion/compinstall: handle list-suffixes; make diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files index 87234eb2d..fa98ce574 100644 --- a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files +++ b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files @@ -37,12 +37,25 @@ if zstyle -a ":completion:${curcontext}:" file-patterns tmp; then done else if [[ "$type" = *g* ]]; then - if [[ "$type" = */* ]]; then - pats=( " ${glob//:/\\:}:globbed-files *(-/):directories" '*:all-files ' ) - else - pats=( " ${glob//:/\\:}:globbed-files " - '*(-/):directories ' '*:all-files ' ) - fi + + # People prefer to have directories shown on first try as default. + # Even if the calling function didn't use -/. + # + # if [[ "$type" = */* ]]; then + + pats=( " ${glob//:/\\:}:globbed-files *(-/):directories" '*:all-files ' + + ### We could allow _next_tags to offer only globbed-files or directories + ### by adding: + ### " ${glob//:/\\:}:only-globbed-files " ' *(-/):only-directories ' + + ) + + # else + # pats=( " ${glob//:/\\:}:globbed-files " + # '*(-/):directories ' '*:all-files ' ) + # fi + elif [[ "$type" = */* ]]; then pats=( '*(-/):directories ' '*:all-files ' ) else @@ -53,15 +66,16 @@ fi tried=() for def in "$pats[@]"; do eval "def=( ${${def:gs/\\:/\\\\\\\\\\\\:}//(#b)([][()|*?^#~<>])/\\${match[1]}} )" + + tmp="${(@M)def#*[^\\]:}" + (( $tried[(I)${(q)tmp}] )) && continue + tried=( "$tried[@]" "$tmp" ) + for sdef in "$def[@]"; do tag="${${sdef#*[^\\]:}%%:*}" pat="${${sdef%%:${tag}*}//\\:/:}" - (( $tried[(I)${(q)pat}] )) && continue - - tried=( "$tried[@]" "$pat" ) - if [[ "$sdef" = *:${tag}:* ]]; then descr="${(Q)sdef#*:${tag}:}" else @@ -86,7 +100,13 @@ for def in "$pats[@]"; do done (( ret )) || break done + + ### For that _next_tags change mentioned above we would have to + ### comment out the following line. (Or not, depending on the order + ### of the patterns.) + [[ "$pat" = '*' ]] && return ret + done (( ret )) || return 0 done diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo b/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo index d9afe9933..ff41b09b3 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo @@ -1111,10 +1111,12 @@ kindex(file-patterns, completion style) item(tt(file-patterns))( In most places where filenames are completed, the function tt(_files) is used which can be configured with this style. If the style is -unset, tt(_files) offers, one after another, up to three tags: +unset, tt(_files) offers, up to three tags: `tt(globbed-files)', `tt(directories)' and `tt(all-files)', depending on the types of files -expected by the caller of tt(_files). +expected by the caller of tt(_files). The first two +(`tt(globbed-files)' and `tt(directories)') are normally offered +together to make it easier to complete files in sub-directories. If the tt(file-patterns) style is set, the default tags are not used. Instead, the value of the style says which tags and which @@ -1149,15 +1151,15 @@ the string on the line, one would do: example(zstyle ':completion:*:*:rm:*' file-patterns \ '*.o:object-files' '%p:all-files') -Another interesting example is to change the default behaviour that -makes completion first offer files matching the patterns given by the -calling function, then directories and then all files. Many people -prefer to get both the files matching the given patterns and the -directories in the first try and all files at the second try. To -achieve this, one could do: +Another interesting example is to change the default behaviour in a +way that makes completion first offer files matching the patterns +given by the calling function, then directories and then all files. +Some people prefer this over getting both the files matching the given +patterns and the directories in the first try and all files at the +second try. To achieve this, one could do: example(zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \ - '%p:globbed-files *(-/):directories' '*:all-files') + '%p:globbed-files' '*(-/):directories' '*:all-files') This works even for contexts in which all files would be completed, because tt(_files) will not try a pattern more than once and it stops |