Re: simpler completion

Ray Andrews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2025-06-24 07:58, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 4 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 1 % mnt [TAB]
> Sorry, what's "mnt"?  Zsh doesn't have a completion function for that.
Those are just filenames, what I showed was an actual attempt at 
completion after pressing TAB.  Completion has no problem with my weird 
filenames, it's just a question of throttling it back so that it stops 
looking for command completions.  Basically I want it as simple as I 
guess it could possibly be: complete on local files and directories, 
case insensitive, no messages, no commands, no nuthin' but files.  I 
know there's huge power in the completion system and I should probably 
get familiar with it but for now all I want is the most basic thing.  I 
expect that most of those 'zstyle' lines could be killed but ...

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