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Tue, 26 Apr 2005

zsh compctl

Got bored after doing some homework tonight and added a few more completions to my zsh config. The top two are yanked from petef's zshrc

compctl -g '/u9/psionic/Mail/*(/:t)' -P '+' folder
compctl -g '/var/db/pkg/*(/:t)' pkg_delete pkg_info
compctl -g "/tmp/screens/S-${USER}/*(p:t)" screen
compctl -g "*(-/D)" + -g "*.class(.:r)" java

What do they do? (Listed in order)

for the program 'folder' complete to any directory in /u9/psionic/Mail/ and drop the path above it (like basename(1)). Also prefix it with a '+' character.

fury(~) [1] !127! % folder +TAB
drafts      exec        inbox       lists       old         rtp         spam        
duplicates  foo         jason       main        outbox      security    work

complete package names under freebsd for pkg_delete and pkg_info

nightfall(~/foo/project) [1021] % pkg_info TAB
ORBit2-2.12.1_1               isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.1.r14_6  png-1.2.6
adns-1.0_1                    jad-1.5.8c                    portupgrade-20041226_1
aspell-0.60.2                 jpeg-6b_3                     ruby-1.8.2_3
... the list goes on ...

complete screen sessions

nightfall(~/foo/project) [1022] !1! % screen -x TAB
11950.ttyp6.nightfall  16783.ttyp2.nightfall  16852.ttypa.nightfall  709.ttyp8.nightfall
16146.ttypn.nightfall  16801.ttyp4.nightfall  17336.ttyp0.nightfall  741.ttypc.nightfall

complete java class names without the '.class' extension

nightfall(~/foo/project/os1/step1) [1024] % java sys/TAB
ExitCode  Kernel    Panic

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1 responses to 'zsh compctl'

Mike posted at Mon Apr 16 11:06:29 2007...

Funny. Found this post through searching on google for zsh completion.

Not sure why, but when using `sudo` I cannot get any commands to complete files/folders besides `ls`. Using sudo with commands like chown, chmod, vi, etc won't allow me to tab complete any files/folders. It will, however, complete more commands. Something like "sudo vi l[TAB]" will result in a list of all commands starting with "l" as opposed to any files/folders that start with "l" in the pwd.

I was originally using all compctl to do autocomplete and then moved to the new completion system. Any ideas on how to get that to work?

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