Re: Dynamic named directories and completion

[Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/26/18 9:47 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:53:00 -0500
> Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes, M-x complete-word does indeed work!  I still need to try some of the
> > patches from later in this thread ...
>
> Glad it's not totally shrouded in obscurity...
>
> Would generally recommend the combination of complete-word as binding
> for tab + use of the expand completer (which I fixed somewhere else in
> this thread but am still to commit) as this is much more configurable.
>
> To turn it on you'd do something like
>
> zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _ignored
> bindkey '^i' complete-word
>
> but there are many more exotic possibilities.
>
> I'll have a look at expand-or-complete word, too.
>
> (Ideally, in fact, whether or not we expand ~[whatever] needs
> configuring --- because this is dynamic completion you might decide to
> expand it to freeze the path for future use.  I'll look at that if I get
> the chance.  This is the sort of reason for using the expand completer
> I'm talking about.)
>
> pws

This plus the small patch you sent earlier for _expand works, thanks!
I feel like expand-or-complete should work too, but as long as the
_expand patch makes it into the final code I'm happy.

Thanks again,
Scott