Re: Disable all-files completions in a directory

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 3,  1:26pm, joe M wrote:
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} Is it possible to disable completions on all-files in some directories?

Depends on what you mean by "in".  (William J. Clinton, 1998)

If you mean "Is it possible to disable completions on all-files when
the value of $PWD matches certain directories?" then yes, you can use
zstyle -e to include/omit all-files from tag-order as necessary.

If you mean "... any time completion reaches certain directories, even
if I'm completing a path that begins somewhere above that directory in
the directory tree?" then the answer is probably no.  However ...

You might experiment with using the file-patterns style to break up the
files into groups regardless of what directory you are in.  For example:

zstyle ':completion:*' file-patterns \
   '*([1,10]):first-ten-files' \
   '*([11,30]):second-twenty-files' \
   '*([31,-1]):all-remaining-files'

Now when you press TAB you'll be offered at most the first-ten-files.
You can advance to the next twenty with the _next_tags widget (bound
by default to control-x n), and then to all the rest of the files with
one more tap of ^Xn.  If you combine this with, for example,

zstyle ':completion:*' file-sort modification

then you'll always be offered the ten most recent files, etc.