Re: completion after ../

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tanaka Akira wrote:

> Sometimes completion after ../ frustrates me.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Z:akr@crane% mkdir -p z/tstdir
> Z:akr@crane% cd z/tstdir
> Z:akr@crane% ls ..        
> tstdir
> Z:akr@crane% ls ../<TAB>
> 
> ->
> 
> Z:akr@crane% ls ../tstdir/
> 
> Since there is only one caondidate `tstdir', zsh completes it.  It is
> consistent behaviour.  But I want to list instead of completion
> because ../tstdir is not useful --- it's current working directory.
> 
> I think it is useful that a style to control this behaviour: list
> files even if there is only one completion candidate when previous
> path component is `..'.

Only with `..'? What I'm after is: can someone come up with a good
description of how exactly we would want this? (I already stumbled
over the same example Tanaka described, too, but I have the feeling
that this might be only one case of a more general thing...)

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx