Re: open file with tex extension

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@xxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

* Frank Terbeck <frank.terbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@xxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>> A similar feature I could use in a directory with latex
>> files. Once you translated a latex file you have additional
>> files with the same name, but different extension.
>> Now, I look for a way to adjust the completion so that when
>> I type the name of the latex file zsh completes the
>> extension to '.tex' and does not give any other options
>> like:
>> 
>>   `--> vim sample.aux
>>   completing file
>>   sample.aux    sample.idx    sample.out    sample.rel    sample.tex\~              
>>   sample.dvi    sample.log    sample.pdf    sample.tex 
>> 
>> Is that somehow possible?
>
> you can ignore certain patterns for completion:
>
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns \
>           '*?.(aux|dvi|log|idx|pdf|rel|out)'
> zstyle ':completion::*:(vi|vim):*' ignored-patterns '*~'

Thanks for the quick reply! 
It just works without the second completion, otherwise the
old completion is 'overwritten'. Thanks!
Is it possible to ignore directories with the same name?

Greetings!
 Fabian