Re: Selectively sorting directory by date in completion

Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:37:31 +0100

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On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 11:20 AM André Marçais <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun Mar 22, 2026 at 5:26 AM CET, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >> You might be able to make good use of zstyle -e here, where the value
> >> of the style will be evaluated [...]
> >
> > zstyle -e ':completion:*' file-sort \
> >   '[[ ${${~PREFIX:-$PWD}:a} = (/tmp|$HOME/(dl|tmp)) ]] && \
> >     reply=(date)'
>
> Hey, thanks to both of you. I missed the `zstyle -e` option. That's
> pretty clean.
>
> >> [...] $REPLY will be used as the style value
> >
> > It's got to be the $reply array rather than the $REPLY scalar, I think.
>
> Yeah, according to the manual it's `$reply`. (See zshmodules(1).)

Sorry about that, I was probably thinking of the (e::) glob qualifier
where you can use either.