Re: tab completion list does not complete dot files

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"t takahashi" wrote:
> > You can make the *entire* completion system do this by putting
> 
> entire?  is that important?

There's a lot of it.

> > the following code in your initialisation file after you run "compinit":
> > 
> > _comp_options+=(globdots)
> 
> i had no idea what you were talking about, because compinit said command not 
> found

So you weren't at that point using the new completion system.  That's
why I asked.

> now it doesn't complete symlinks even when the symlinks are partly
> typed.

Not only should it complete symbolic links, I can't offhand think of a
way to get it *not* to.  Does this apply to all symbolic links, or only
symbolic links that don't point at an existing file, or only symbolic
links that begin with a dot, or something else?

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