Re: Adding a prefix to certain filename completions

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Jul 4,  9:37pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > Vim has issues with files that begin with a + (or two +s for that
> > matter), so I'd like to add a ./ prefix to such files when
> > completing.

> YOu can get most of the way there with this:
> 
> zstyle -e ':completion:*:vim:*' fake-files 'reply=("$PWD:$(print ./+*)")'
> zstyle ':completion:*:vim:*' matcher 'b:+=./+'
> 
> However, all that does is offer the ./+* as alternatives, it doesn't
> remove the originals.  The trouble is that file completion is
> sensitive to directory separators, so as soon as you introduce the
> slash, the rules begin to apply to the stuff on the right of the slash
> rather than to the entire string.

Yeah, no...that works, but it wasn't great; damn.

Anyway, thank you all for your suggestions,
        nikolai

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