Re: [RFC] Case-insensitive path completion in _git

[dana <dana@xxxxxxx>]

On 13 Dec 2020, at 07:55, m0viefreak <m0viefreak.cm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This solution only handles simple upper-lower-case conversion matcher-list styles,
> but it will not work for more complicated styles like 'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*'.
> That's probably fine for most use-cases.

That's true.

On 13 Dec 2020, at 07:55, m0viefreak <m0viefreak.cm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Performance-wise, it's obviously worse than than your proposed solution, but
> still better than the fallback, since it still passes $gitprefix to ls-files,
> which should also avoid the CWD problem.

Are you sure? It seems to me that $gittoplevel$gitprefix is normally the CWD,
so you'd just be running `git ls-files /path/to/cwd/*`, which will never match
a PREFIX like `../foo`.

I guess we could make it so that it retains any leading segments in PREFIX,
but then you have the same two issues again (those segments have to be matched
case-insensitively, and it doesn't account for more complex matcher-list
styles).

I also just realised that we can't match stuff like `./foo` or `.//foo` or
`../cwd/../`, since `git ls-files` elides unnecessary slashes/segments in its
output.

On 13 Dec 2020, at 07:55, m0viefreak <m0viefreak.cm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The trigger of the fallback is broken anyways, isn't it? ...
> It just considers the case where no match was found at all, but it does not
> handle the case where *some* matches were found, but not all.

As it is in the repo, yes, actually. If you have like foobar and Foobaz, then
foo<TAB> will return only the former without triggering the fall-back.

dana